Traditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide

Traditional Chinese Locales

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)