International Language Environments Guide

Script Enabling for Solaris 8

The Solaris 8 base product provides multiple levels of script enabling, such as simple ASCII support, Latin/European support, Asian multibyte support, and Arabic/Hebrew bidirectional support.

The interfaces defined within the X/Open specification are capable of supporting a large set of languages and territories, including the following types of script:

Script 

Description 

Latin Language 

Americas, Eastern/Western Europe, Turkey 

Greek 

Greece 

East Asia 

Japanese, Korean, and Chinese 

Indic 

Thai 

Bidirectional 

Arabic and Hebrew 

Cyrillic 

Russian