Expanded Unicode Support

The Solaris 8 operating environment continues to broaden support for Unicode, with the addition of new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Also, complete support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) scripts has been enabled. This allows proper rendering of text for bidirectional and also context-sensitive shaping scripts like Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai in the Unicode locale.

Unicode is often used in a mixed script environment, where it is necessary to display text from multiple languages in a single environment. In those cases where it is necessary to provide support for cultural-specific conventions such as date and time, monetary format, and collation, the multiple Unicode locales provided in Solaris are quite useful.

For more information, see the International Language Environments Guide.