Setting a Simplified Chinese Locale

You can set any of the following locales when you login to your Simplified Chinese desktop:

• C – ASCII English environment.

• zh – Simplified Chinese environment in extended UNIX code (EUC).

• zh.GBK – Simplified Chinese environment in GBK, an extension of GB2312-80. This standard is Guo Biao Kuo in Chinese PinYin, which supports all CJK characters that are in Unicode 2.0.

• zh_CN.GB18030 – Simplified Chinese environment in GB18030-2000. The new GB 18030-2000 standard, which will obsolete the GBK, supports CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and Yi, Mongolian, Tibetan and Uigur minority scripts in Unicode 3.0.

• zh_CN.EUC – Symbolic link to zh locale.

• zh_CN.GBK – Symbolic link to zh.GBK locale.

• zh.UTF-8 – Simplified Chinese environment in Unicode 3.2.

• zh_CN.UTF-8 – Symbolic link to zh.UTF-8.

How to Set the Locale at Login

You can set your default locale or change it with the following procedure.

1. Choose Language from the options menu on the login screen.

2. Select the C, zh, zh.UTF-8, zh_CN.GB18030, or zh.GBK locale.

   The new locale is set for your CDE session.