Support for the New Chinese GB18030-2000 Character Set
Beginning with the Solaris 8 2/02 release, the Solaris platform enables input, display, and print for the entire GB18030-2000 character set (including nearly 30,000 characters). Any application that runs on the Solaris platform can thus benefit from a wider set of Chinese characters. These glyphs are primarily Han characters, but the encoding also includes glyphs for minority languages such as Tibetan, Wei, Yi, and Mongolian.
GB18030-2000 support in the Solaris 9 release also includes backward compatibility to previous Chinese codesets (GBK and GB2312), as well as conversion to other codesets such as Unicode. Solaris developers do not need to change their procedures to access this new encoding support. Standard toolkits can use the new support.
For Java applications that need GB18030-2000 support, review J2SETM at the following Web site:
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