Support for Codeset Independence

The Solaris 8 operating environment supports non-EUC encodings such as PC-Kanji in Japan, Big-5 in Taiwan, and GBK in the People's Republic of China.

Because a large part of the computer market demands non-EUC codeset support, Solaris 8 provides a solid framework to enable both EUC and non-EUC codeset support. This support is called Codeset Independence, or CSI.

The goal of CSI is to remove EUC dependencies on specific codesets or encoding methods from Solaris OS libraries and commands. The CSI architecture allows the Solaris operating environment to support any UNIX file system safe encoding. CSI supports a number of new codesets, such as UTF-8, PC-Kanji, and Big-5.