Software Support for Localization

This section contains information about the Solaris 9 locale packages, localization content on the Solaris 9 CD-ROMs, localization functions in the interfaces, and script enabling.

Summary of the Solaris 9 Locale Packages

All Solaris 9 locale packages are classified into two categories.

The first category is for partial locales, which are the enablers of the locales. With partial locales installed on the system, users can input, display, print text and run applications on the target locales, while the OS/GUI messages from Solaris are English. All partial locale packages are available on the Solaris Software CDs. Japanese and Asian pertial locales are packaged according to the language and the other partial locales are packaged according to the geographic region.

The second category is for full locale packages. These packages include translations of software messages, online help files, optional fonts, and language-specific features. Full locale packages provide the full set of language features to many languages. All locales based on the following languages are full locales:

• German

• French

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Simplified Chinese

• Traditional Chinese

Full locale packages are packaged according to the language and are available on the Language CD.

Partial locale packages (locale enablers) must be installed in order for the full locales to be functional.

During the Solaris installation process, you are prompted to choose which geographic regions require your support. The locale support available after installation completes depends on the choices made at this stage. Partial locales are installed from the Solaris Software CD-ROMs with the Solaris 9 Operating Environment and full locales are installed from the Languages CD. If you do not need full locale support, you can skip the installation from the Languages CD-ROM during the installation process. Note that the English locale is installed as the default.

Additional Locales in This Release

The new partial locales for this release are the addition of UTF–8 locales for Russian and Polish, two new locales for Catalan, a new Thai locale, a new Indic locale, two new Traditional Chinese locales, and a new Simplified Chinese locale. The locale names are:

• ar_EG.UTF-8

• ca_ES.ISO8859–1

• ca_ES.ISO8859–15

• fi_FI.UTF-8

• fr_BE.UTF-8

• pl_PL.UTF-8

• pt_BR.UTF-8

• ru_RU.UTF-8

• tr_TR.UTF-8

• th_TH.UTF-8

• hi_IN.UTF-8

• zh_HK.BIG5HK

  This is a Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Big5–HKSCS locale. It is a full locale if the Traditional Chinese message packages are installed from the Languages CD.

• zh_HK.UTF-8

  This is a Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) UTF—8 locale. It is a full locale if the Traditional Chinese message packages are installed from the Languages CD.

• zh_CN.GB18030

  This is a Simplified Chinese GB18030 locale. It is a full locale if the Simplified Chinese message packages are installed from the Languages CD.