Localization Content on Solaris 8 CD-ROMs (International Language Environments Guide)

International Language Environments Guide

Localization Content on Solaris 8 CD-ROMs

Partial locales are selected at the beginning of the install procedure on the OS CD-ROM. Full locales are automatically installed from the Language CD-ROM according to the locale selections made at the beginning of the install procedure.

The distribution of locales is shown in the table below.

Table 3-1 Solaris 8 Installation CD-ROMs


Disk	Contents
Solaris OS CD-ROM	Solaris 8 Operating System all partial locales
Language CD-ROM	message translations for 9 languages locale specific utilities

As mentioned, the locales include partial locales. These are based on core locales for the main language. For example, the fr_CA.ISO8859-1 (French Canadian) is based on the fr_FR.ISO8859-1 (French) locale. These partial locales utilize the messages that are delivered into its parent locale (French for fr_CA). If a locale hasn't been fully localized, then it might contain only English messages.