Code Conversions

Unicode locale support adds various code conversions among major code sets of many countries through iconv and sdtconvtool utilities.

In the current Oracle Solaris environment, the utility geniconvtbl enables user-defined code conversions. The user-defined code conversions created with the geniconvtbl utility can be used with both iconv(1) and iconv(3). For more details about this utility, refer to the geniconvtbl(1) and geniconvtbl(4) man pages.

The available fromcode and tocode names that can be applied to iconv, iconv_open, and sdtconvtool are described by the following man pages:

• iconv_1250(5)

• iconv_1251(5)

• iconv_646(5)

• iconv_852(5)

• iconv_8859-1(5)

• iconv_8859-2(5)

• iconv_8859-5(5)

• iconv_dhn(5)

• iconv_en_US.UTF-8(5)

• iconv_ja(5)

• iconv_ko(5)

• iconv_koi8-r(5)

• iconv_mac_cyr(5)

• iconv_maz(5)

• iconv_pc_cyr(5)

• iconv_unicode(5)

• iconv_zh(5)

• iconv_zh_TW(5)

For more details about iconv code conversion, see the iconv(1), and sdtconvtool(1) man pages. For more information about the available code conversions, see the iconv(5) man page.

UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 and UTF-32 are all Unicode/ ISO/IEC 10646 representation forms that recognize Byte Order Mark (BOM) characters defined in the Unicode 4.0 and ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standards if the character appears at the beginning of the character stream. Other forms, like UCS-2BE, UCS-4BE, UTF-16BE, and UTF-32BE, are fixed-width Unicode/ISO/IEC 10646 representation forms that do not recognize the BOM character and also assume big endian byte ordering. Representation forms like UCS-2LE, UCS-4LE, UTF-16LE, and UTF-32LE, on the other hand, assume little endian byte ordering. These forms also do not recognize the BOM character.

For associated scripts and languages of ISO8859–* and KO18–*, see http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8869.html.