New Internationalization and Localization Features in Solaris 8

• Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale. This provides broader support for Unicode with the addition of new UTF-8 locales. Unicode is often used in a mixed script environment, where it is necessary to display text from multiple languages in a single environment.

• Traditional Chinese UTF-8 locale

• Asian printing enhancements

• Support for 90 locales on the base Solaris CD. This is a new packaging approach to universal language coverage.

• Enhanced Sdtudctool --support for migration of UDC (User Defined Character) from Microsoft Windows. Localized for all Asian locales.

• Three additional locales have been added for Iceland (ISO8859-1), U.S.A. (ISO8859-15), and Russia (ANSI1251). The new U.S.A. locale adds support for the euro currency glyph. The new Russian locale is in addition to the existing ISO8859-5 and KOI8-R locales. It provides native Microsoft data encoding support. The new ISO8859-1 locale for Iceland marks the introduction of Icelandic support to the Solaris environment.

• Customer-extensible codeset conversion. New codeset conversion can be added by using the geniconvtbl utility. Existing codeset conversions can be modified.

• European locale repackaging

• Euro font

• Adding Japanese iconv modules -- conversions for IBM mainframe codesets and conversions between Unicode and Shift-JIS for Microsoft codeset.

• Euro currency. All foreign exchange, banking, and finance industries in the European community are converting from using their local currencies to using the Euro. Euro currency support has been enhanced in the Solaris 8 environment with the addition of U.S. and Estonian ISO8859-15 locales.

• Multibyte Partial locale -- framework of multibyte locale support is included in the Base Solaris product.

• Enhanced Unicode iconv modules. The iconv module has been enhanced for various Unicode encoding formats and international and de facto industry standard codesets.