Character Support

The Solaris 7 operating environment supports extended UNIX code (EUC), VTF8, PCK, and B165. This allows multibyte and multiple code sets on one system.

The SunOS release 4 software supported single-byte representation of non-ASCII characters. The Solaris 7 operating environment supports multibyte representation. This support is needed for Asian language character sets, which contain thousands of characters.

The multibyte functions are included in libc and provide the following features:

• Multibyte-to-wide character conversions

• Wide character standard I/O

• Wide character classification

• Wide character formatting

The Solaris 7 operating environment supports multibyte file names; however, login and machine names should be restricted to ASCII characters.