International Language Environments Guide

Japanese Localization

This section describes Japanese locale-specific information. For more information, see the documents in Oracle Solaris 10 User Collection - Japanese (written in Japanese).

Japanese Locales

Four Japanese locales, which support different character encodings, are available in the current Oracle Solaris environment. The ja and ja_JP.eucJP locales are based on the Japanese EUC. The ja_JP.eucJP locale conforms to the UI-OSF Japanese Environment Implementation Agreement Version 1.1 and the ja locale conforms to the traditional specification from earlier Oracle Solaris releases. The ja_JP.PCK locale is based on PC-Kanji code (known as Shift_JIS) and the ja_JP.UTF-8 is based on UTF-8.

See the eucJP(5) man page for a map showing Japanese EUC and the character set. See the PCK(5) man page for the map showing PC-Kanji code and the character set.

Japanese Character Sets

The supported Japanese character sets include:

JIS X 0201–1976
JIS X 0208–1990
JIS X 0212–1990
JIS X 0213:2004 (only characters defined in Unicode4.0)

JIS X 0212–1990 is not supported in the ja_JP.PCK locale. JIS X 0213:2004 is supported in the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale only. Not all characters defined in the JIS X 0213:2004 are available. Only those characters defined in the Unicode 4.0 character set are available.

Vendor-defined characters (VDC) and user-defined characters (UDC) are also supported. VDCs occupy unused (reserved) code points of JIS X 0208–1990 or JIS X 0212–1990. UDCs occupy the same code points as VDCs, except those code points allocated for VDCs.

Japanese Fonts

Three Japanese font formats are supported: bitmap, TrueType, and Type1. The Japanese Type1 font includes only JIS X 0212 for printing. The Type1 font is also used by UDC.

Japanese bitmap fonts are described in the following table.

Table 4–1 Japanese Bitmap Fonts


Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
`sun gothic`	R, B	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)		JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0201–1976
`sun minchou`	R	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)		JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0201–1976
`ricoh hg gothic b`	R	PCF(10,12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0201–1976
`ricoh hg mincho l`	R	PCF(10,12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0201–1976
`ricoh gothic`	R	PCF(10,12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JIS X 0212–1990, JIS X 0213:2004
`ricoh mincho`	R	PCF(10,12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JIS X 0212–1990, JIS X 0213:2004
`ricoh heiseimin`	R	PCF(12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JIS X 0212–1990

Japanese TrueType fonts are described in the following table.

Table 4–2 Japanese TrueType Fonts


Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
`ricoh hg gothic b`	Fixed	TrueType	RICOH	JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0201–1976
`ricoh hg mincho l`	Fixed	TrueType	RICOH	JIS X 0208–.1983, JIS X 0201–1976
`ricoh hg gothicb sun`	Fixed, Proportional	TrueType	RICOH	JIS X 0201–176, JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0213–2004
`ricoh hg minchol sun`	Fixed, Proportional	TrueType	RICOH	JIS X 0201–1976, JIS X 0208–1983, JIS X 0213–2004
`ricoh heiseimin`	Fixed	TrueType	RICOH	JIS X 0212–1990

Japanese Input Systems

ATOK for Solaris (equivalent to ATOK17) is the default Japanese input system. Wnn6 is also available. To switch ATOK for Solaris to Wnn6, see Japanese Environment User's Guide (written in Japanese).The kkcv Japanese input system is available for Japanese Solaris 1.x BCP support.

Terminal Setting for Japanese Terminals

To use Japanese locales on a character-based terminal (TTY) you must use terminal settings to make line editing work correctly.

If your terminal is a CDE Terminal emulator (dtterm), use stty(1) with the argument -defeucw in any Japanese locale (ja, ja_JP.PCK, or ja_JP.UTF-8). For example, in the ja locale you would type:
```
% setenv LANG ja
% stty defeucw 	
```
If your terminal is not a CDE Terminal emulator but the code set of your terminal is the same as that of the current locale, use stty(1) with the argument -defeucw.
If your terminal's code set doesn't match that of the current locale, use setterm(1) to enable code conversion. For example, if you are in the ja locale but your terminal requires PCK (Shift_JIS code), you would type:
```
% setenv LANG ja 
% setterm -x PCK 		
```
See the setterm(3CURSES) man page for details.

Japanese `iconv` Module

Several Japanese code set conversions are supported with iconv(1) and iconv(3C). See the iconv_ja(5) man page for details.

User-Defined Character Support

The user-defined character utility sdtudctool handles both outline (Type1) and bitmap (PCF) fonts. Some utilities are also available to migrate the UDC fonts that were created by old utilities in prior releases, such as fontedit, type3creator, and fontmanager.