Chapter 6 Localized Applications

The following sections in this chapter describe the utilities and applications that you use in the Korean Solaris Operating System.

• Using the mailx Utility with Korean Characters

• Using talk with Korean Characters

• The xtobdf Utility

• The Sdtconvtool Utility

• The iconv Utility

Using the mailx Utility with Korean Characters

The encoding variable in mailrc does not affect Mailer behavior, but it does set mailx function. To send email in formats other than 7-bit ASCII, such as to send (8-bit) Korean characters you must use /usr/SUNWale/bin/mailx. The encoding variable in .mailrc sets encoding formats for mailx.

International transmission conventions require that header information use only ASCII characters. Korean characters should not be used in the header (including the Subject line) with Mailer or with mailx.

The /bin/mailx application has not been localized and cannot send or receive Korean characters.

Using talk with Korean Characters

To use Korean characters with talk, the /usr/SUNWale/bin/talk application is required because /bin/talk is not localized.

The xtobdf Utility

Korean Solaris software provides the following BDF font generator:

• xtobdf — Converts from an X server font to a BDF font

The Sdtconvtool Utility

Sdtconvtool is a graphic user interface utility that enables file conversion between various code sets. Its functionality is similar to iconv.

How to Use the Sdtconvtool Utility

The following procedure shows how to convert a file encoded in UTF-8 to ko_KR.EUC encoding.

1. Select the code set of the file to be converted.

   Scroll through the pull-down list and select the code set of the file to be converted. In this case, select UTF-8.

2. Enter the path of the file to be converted.

   You can enter the path manually in the source file path area, or you can use the browse button to find and select the file. In this case. For example, you could enter or select /tmp/ko_KR.UTF-8.

3. Select the code set to for the converted file.

   Select the target code set. For example, you could select ko_KR-euc.

4. Enter the path for the target file.

   You can enter the path manually in the target file path area, or you can use the browse button to find and select the file. For example, you could enter or select /tmp/ko-euc.txt.

5. Click the start conversion button.

The iconv Utility

The iconv command converts the characters or sequences of characters in a file from one code set to another and writes the results to standard output. Korean Solaris software includes special filters for the iconv command.

If no conversion exists for a particular character, it is converted to the underscore _ in the target code set. The following options are supported:

• -f from-code - Symbol of the input code set

• -t to-code - Symbol of the output code set

The following code set conversion modules are supported in Korean Solaris software. For more information, see iconv(1).

The following modules perform character-based code conversion on the KS C 5700 character set. They convert KSC 5700 characters between Korean UTF-8, completion code (Wansung), and combination code (Johap).

In the following example, a KS C 5601 file (Korean EUC) is converted to KS C 5700 (ko.UTF-8).

system% iconv -f ko_KR-euc -t ko_KR-UTF-8ko_euc_file > ko_UTF-8_file

For further information, see the iconv(3C), iconv_ko.UTF-8(5), and iconv_utf(5) man pages. You can use these utilities to convert files for printing.