Universal Language Coverage

The Solaris 8 operating environment now includes support for more than 90 locales, covering 37 languages, on both the Solaris 8 Software CDs and the Solaris 8 Languages CD.

The Solaris 8 Software CDs provide an English interface to input, display, and print text in a target language, including multibyte locales. In addition, the Solaris 8 Languages CD provides localized interface and documentation.

This new packaging approach greatly simplifies the development and testing of applications for international markets and eliminates the need to purchase an optional media kit to set up a non-English development or production environment.

Customers will also notice a new locale installation mechanism. In previous Solaris releases the locale support included with the operating environment depended on the software cluster installed. The new installation interface in the Solaris 8 operating environment enables users to install only those regions for which they require locale support.

For more information, see the International Language Environments Guide.