International Language Environments Guide

Traditional Chinese Localization

Traditional Chinese in the Solaris 8 product provides three locales: zh_TW, zh_TW.UTF-8 and zh_TW.BIG5. In the zh_TW locale, the EUC scheme is used to encode CNS 11643.1992 codeset. The zh_TW.BIG5 locale supports the Big-5 codeset. The zh_TW.UTF-8 locale supports Unicode 3.0

Traditional Chinese is used mostly in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and supports the following input methods:

Table 3-23 Traditional Chinese Truetype Fonts for the zh_TW Locales

Full Family Name 

Subfamily 

Format 

Vendor 

Encoding 

 Hei R Truetype Hanyi CNS11643.1992
 Kai R Truetype Hanyi CNS11643.1992
 Ming R Truetype Hanyi CNS11643.1992

The following table shows the Traditional Chinese BitMap Fonts for the zh_TW Locales.

Table 3-24 Traditional Chinese BitMap Fonts for the zh_TW Locales

Full Family Name 

Subfamily 

Format 

Encoding 

 Ming R PCF (12,14,16,20,24) CNS11643.1992

The following table shows the Traditional Chinese TrueType Fonts for the zh_TW.BIG5 Locales.

Table 3-25 Traditional Chinese TrueType Fonts for the zh_TW.BIG5 Locales

Full Family Name 

Subfamily 

Format 

Vendor 

Encoding 

 Hei R TrueType Hanyi Big5
 Kai R TrueType Hanyi Big5
 Ming R TrueType Hanyi Big5

The following table shows the Traditional Chinese BitMap Fonts for the zh_TW.BIG5 Locales.

Table 3-26 Traditional Chinese BitMap Fonts for the zh_TW.BIG5 Locales

Full Family Name 

Subfamily 

Format 

Encoding 

 Ming R PCF (12,14,16,20,24) Big5

The following table shows the supported codeset conversions for Traditional Chinese.

Table 3-27 Codeset Conversions for Traditional Chinese

Code 

Symbol 

Target Code 

Symbol 

CNS 11643

zh_TW-euc 

Big-5  

zh_TW-Big5 

CNS 11643

zh_TW-euc 

ISO 2022-7 

zh_TW-iso2022-7 

Big-5

zh_TW-Big5 

CNS 11643 

zh_TW-euc 

Big-5

zh_TW-Big5 

ISO 2022-7 

zh_TW-iso2022-7 

ISO 2022-7

zh_TW-iso2022-7 

CNS 11643 

zh_TW-euc 

ISO 2022-7

zh_TW-iso2022-7 

Big-5 

zh_TW-Big5 

CNS 11643

zh_TW-eu 

ISO 2022-CN-EXT 

zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT 

ISO 2022-CN-EXT

zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT 

CNS 11643 

zh_TW-euc 

Big-5

zh_TW-Big5 

ISO 2022-CN 

zh_TW-iso2022-CN 

ISO 2022-CN

zh_TW-iso2022-CN 

Big-5 

zh_TW-Big5 

UTF-8

UTF-8 

CNS 11643 

zh_TW-euc 

CNS 11643

zh_TW-euc 

UTF-8 

UTF-8 

UTF-8

UTF-8 

Big-5 

zh_TW-Big5 

Big-5

zh_TW-Big5 

UTF-8 

UTF-8 

UTF-8

UTF-8 

ISO 2022-7 

zh_TW-iso2022-7 

ISO 2022-7

zh_TW-iso2022-7 

UTF-8 

UTF-8 

ISO 2022-CN-EXT

zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EX 

Big-5 

zh_TW-Big5 

Big-5

zh_TW-Big5 

ISO 2022-CN-EXT 

zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT