International Language Environments Guide

Summary of Asian Locales

The following table shows the Asian supported locales.

Table 3-17 Summary of Asian Locales


CD Set	Locale Name	Description	Supported Character Set
Korean	`ko` `ko.UTF-8`	Korean (EUC) Korean (UTF-8)	KSC 5601-1987 KSC 5601-1992

Simplified Chinese	`zh` `zh GBK` `zh.UTF-8`	Simplified Chinese (EUC) Simplified Chinese (GBK) Simplified Chinese (UTF-8)	GB 2312-1980 GBK Unicode 3.0

Traditional Chinese	`zh_TW` `zh_TW.BIG5` `zh_TW.UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese (EUC) Traditional Chinese (BIG5) Traditional Chinese (UTF-8)	CNS 11643 -1992 BIG5 Unicode 3.0

Japanese	`ja` `ja_JP.PCK` `ja_JP.UTF-8`	Japanese (EUC) Japanese (PCK) [ja_JP.PCK (doesn't support JIS x 0212-1990)] Japanese (UTF-8)	JIS x 0201-1976 JIS x 0208-1990 JIS x 0212-1990 VDC [VDC: Vendor Defined Character. VDCs occupy unused (reserved) code points of JIS X 0208-1990 or JIS X 0212-1990] UDC [UDC: User Defined Character. UDCs occupy unused (reserved) code points of JIS X 0208-1990 or JIS X 0212-1990 (also unused for VDCs).]