Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

Simplified Chinese Locales

The Simplified Chinese Solaris Operating System provides simultaneous support for the locales in the following table. The locales look the same to the end user, but the internal character encoding is different.

Table 1–1 Simplified Chinese Locales

Locale 

Description 

zh_CN.EUC (zh)

Simplified Chinese EUC (GB2312) 

zh_CN.GBK (zh.GBK)

Simplified Chinese GBK 

zh_CN.GB18030

Simplified Chinese GB18030-2000 

zh_CN.UTF-8 (zh.UTF-8)

Simplified Chinese UTF-8 (Unicode 3.2)