How this Guide is Organized

The chapters in this guide are organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, Solaris Internationalization Overview tells what's new and provides an overview of the localized products available on the base (English) and the localized multi-lingual Solaris releases.

• Chapter 2, Internationalization Framework in the Solaris 8 Environment describes the internationalization framework in the Solaris 8 product.

• Chapter 3, Contents of Solaris 8 Products describes the contents of the Solaris 8 localized product.

• Chapter 4, Overview of en_US.UTF-8 Locale Support covers the en_US.UTF-8 locales and the internationalization features incorporated into this release.

• Chapter 5, X/DPS contains a detailed look at the procedures to write a localized version of codesets, formats, collation, and messaging. X/DPS

• Chapter 6, Desktop Environments explains the Solaris desktop environments: the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and OpenWindows^TM.The section on CDE has an overview of the application internationalization process, including locale management, localized resources, and font management.

• Chapter 7, Complex Text Layout includes information about CTL extensions that enable Motif APIs to support writing systems that require complex transformation between logical and physical text representations, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.

• Chapter 8, Printing explains printing support under the Solaris 8 operating environment, with specific information for European and Asian printing.

• Appendix A, iconv Code Conversions contains lists of tables of available iconv Conversions between UTF-8 and UTF-EBCDIC

• Appendix B, Partial L10N Package Names on OS CD contains a table of the partial L10N package Names on the OS CD.

• Appendix C, Languages CD Packages List contains tables representing the language packages on the language CD. There are tables for Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Shared.