Improved Data Interoperability

Data interoperability with non-Solaris environments has been improved in the Solaris 8 operating environment with the addition of the following new iconv data conversion utilities :

• iconv for Japanese mainframe data types

• iconv for Microsoft data encodings (including user defined characters)

• iconv for UTF-8 interoperability in People's Republic of China and Korea

• iconv for various Unicode encoding formats and international and de facto industry standard codesets

For more information, see the International Language Environments Guide.