What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

New European Locale Support

New Unicode (UTF-8) Locales for Europe and the Middle East

For the Solaris 8 10/00 release, Russian, Polish, and two new locales for Catalan were added to the European and Middle Eastern locales. For the Solaris 8 4/01 release, two additional languages, Turkish UTF-8 Codeset and Russian UTF-8 Codeset, were added.

In the Solaris 9 release, European and Middle Eastern language support also includes the addition of UTF-8 locales for Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium-Walloon.

The locale names are as follows:

Euro Default Currency Support

The following locales have changed from their national currency unit (NCU) to the euro currency glyph:

ca_ES.ISO8859-15 (Spain)

de_AT.ISO8859-15 (Austria)

de_DE.ISO8859-15 (Germany)

de_DE.UTF-8 (Germany)

en_IE.ISO8859-15 (Ireland)

es_ES.ISO8859-15 (Spain)

es_ES.UTF-8 (Spain)

fr_BE.ISO8859-15 (Belgium)

fr_BE.UTF-8 (Belgium)

fi_FI.ISO8859-15 (Finland)

fi_FI.UTF-8 (Finland)

fr_FR.ISO8859-15 (France)

fr_FR.UTF-8 (France)

it_IT.ISO8859-15 (Italy)

it_IT.UTF-8 (Italy)

nl_BE.ISO8859-15 (Belgium)

nl_NL.ISO8859-15 (Netherlands)

pt_PT.ISO8859-15 (Portugal)

Enhanced Dtpad File Open/Save Codeset Conversion

Enhancements include the addition of an "encoding" option to the File Open/Save dialog box that supports file encoding changes with iconv(3C). This option enables users to open or save files in various encodings, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16.