Japanese Locales

Three Japanese locales, which support different character encoding, are available in the Solaris 8 environment. The ja, (or ja_JP.eucJP) locale is based on the Japanese EUC. The ja_JP.PCK locale is based on PC-Kanji code (known as Shift-JIS) and the ja_JP.UTF-8 is based on UTF-8.

See eucJP(5) for a map between Japanese EUC and the character set. See PCK(5) for the map between PCK and the character set.