Localization Issue

Hardware for Estonian Keyboard Type 6, French Canadian Keyboard Type 6, and Polish Programmers Keyboard Type 5 Not Available in the Solaris 9 12/03 Release

Software support for three additional keyboard layouts has been added to the Solaris 9 software for this release: Estonian keyboard Type 6, French Canadian keyboard Type 6, and Polish programmers keyboard Type 5.

This software gives users in Estonia, Canada, and Poland greater flexibility for keyboard input by modifying standard U.S. keyboard layouts to their own language needs.

Currently, no hardware is available for the three additional keyboard layout types.

Workaround: To take advantage of this new keyboard software, modify the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file in one of the following ways:

• For the Estonian Type 6 keyboard, make the following changes:

  1. Change the US6.kt entry to Estonia6.kt in the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file. The modified entry should read as follows:

     6 0 Estonia6.kt

  2. Add the following entries to the /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose file:

     <scaron>	: "/xa8"	scaron
     <scaron>	: "/xa6"	scaron
     <scaron>	: "/270"	scaron
     <scaron>	: "/264"	scaron

  3. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

• For the French Canadian Type 6 keyboard, make the following changes:

  1. Change the US6.kt entry to Canada6.kt in the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file. The modified entry should read as follows:

     6 0 Canada6.kt

  2. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

• If you are using the existing Polish Type 5 keyboard layout, make the following changes:

  1. Change the Poland5.kt entry to Poland5_pr.kt in the /usr/openwin/ share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file. The modified entry should read as follows:

     4 52 Poland5_pr.kt

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     Note –

     If you are using a keyboard with dip-switches, make sure the switches are set to the correct binary value for the Polish keytable entry (binary 52) before rebooting the system.

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  2. If you are using a standard U.S. Type 5 keyboard, change the US5.kt entry to Poland5_pr.kt in the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file. The modified entry should read as follows:

     4 33 Poland5_pr.kt

  3. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect.