Localization Bugs

IA: Crashes Occur When Using the Arabic and Hebrew Locales (4770382)

If you try to log in to the Arabic or Hebrew locales using the Solaris 9 12/02 (x86 Platform Edition) operating environment, dtlogin will crash, restart, and display the login prompt. The following error message is displayed.

The X server cannot be started on display :0...

If you attempt to launch an application after setting the locale to ar or he at the command line, the application might crash with a core dump.

Workaround: To avoid this problem, apply patch 114034-01. This patch is available at http://sunsolve.sun.com.

AltGraph-E Does Not Produce Euro Character in en_US.UTF-8 Locale (4633549)

In the en_US.UTF-8 locale, you cannot type the Euro character by simultaneously pressing the AltGraph and E keys.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• Press and release the Compose key, then press and release the C key, then press and release the = key (Compose+C+=).

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  If your keyboard does not include the Compose key, then press the Control key while you press the Shift and T keys (Ctrl-Shift-T).

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• Press the Alt key while you press the 4 key (Alt-4).

SPARC: Shift-U Does Not Work as Expected in Arabic Locales (4303879)

To generate the diacritic character in Arabic locales, type the Arabic character, then Shift-U.

Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)

Sorting in the European UTF-8 locales does not work properly.

Workaround: Before you attempt to sort in a FIGGS UTF-8 locale, set the LC_COLLATE variable to the ISO–1 equivalent.

# echo $LC_COLLATE
>  es_ES.UTF-8
# LC_COLLATE=es_ES.IS08859-1
# export LC_COLLATE

Then start sorting.