A locale contains the culturally specific information and conventions of the language for a particular global region. Each process in the Solaris Operating System has the following set of locale attributes:
Locale settings, which provide the locale and setlocale commands you use to list and set attributes before you start a process from the command line.
For example, the Traditional Chinese locales and the English/ASCII locale both have a category that defines the display of time and date according to the cultural format, as well as the actual Traditional Chinese or English/ASCII characters for the time and date.
Code Sets, which support coding conventions for the CNS11643 and BIG5 character sets. These sets enable you to input, display, and print Traditional Chinese text in file names, system messages, and terminal (TTY), email, and data file content.
htt input method server, which handles Traditional Chinese input for the Solaris Operating System. The htt server receives your keyboard input and converts it to Traditional Chinese characters that are used in Traditional Chinese applications.
The Traditional 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 Traditional Chinese Locales
Locale |
Description |
---|---|
zh_TW.EUC (zh_TW) |
Traditional Chinese EUC locale (CNS11643-1992) |
zh_TW.BIG5 |
Traditional Chinese BIG5 |
zh_TW.UTF-8 |
Traditional Chinese UTF-8 (Unicode 3.2) |
zh_HK.BIG5HK |
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) BIG5-HKSCS |
zh_HK.UTF-8 |
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) UTF-8 (Unicode 3.2) |
The following table lists supported code sets for each Traditional Chinese locale.
Table 1–2 Traditional Chinese Code Sets
Locale |
Code Set |
---|---|
zh_TW.EUC (zh_TW) |
cns11643 |
zh_TW.BIG5 |
BIG5 |
zh_TW.UTF-8 |
UTF-8 |
zh_HK.BIG5HK |
BIG5-HKSCS |
zh_HK.UTF-8 |
Unicode 3.2 |
The Traditional Chinese Solaris Operating System provides input methods and fonts that enable you to enter, display, and print any character in any language. The following input methods are supported for the Traditional Chinese locales.
New ChuYin
ChuYin
TsangChieh
Array
Boshiamy
DaYi
JianYi
Cantonese
NeiMa (EUC, BIG5, BIG5-HKSCS)
English-Chinese
Optional codetable Input Methods, such as PinYin
For a complete list of fonts supported for the Traditional Chinese locales, see Chapter 9, Fonts.
The input method auxiliary window supports the following functions: