Full and Partial Locales

A full Solaris locale has all of the listed functions and the localized system messages in the relevant language. If no localized messages are installed, then all locales would be classified as "partial locales". Several locales in the Solaris environment are capable of displaying localized messages, provided that the relevant language support is installed. For example, there are several locales which can use German messages:

• de_DE.ISO8859-1

• de_DE.ISO8859-15

• de_DE.UTF-8

• de_AT.ISO8859-1

• de_AT.ISO8859-15

• de_CH.ISO8859-1

When the German messages translations are installed using the Language CD, all of the above locales will become "full locales", because they will have access to a fully translated desktop. The language CD contains message translations for the following languages:

• German

• French

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Simplified Chinese

• Traditional Chinese

All partial locales are also available in the base product, but message translations are available only in the multilingual Solaris product.