Chapter 1 Overview of Features

The Korean Solaris 8 operating environment is the Sun Microsystems^TM internationalization and Korean localization of the Solaris operating environment as well as the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and OpenWindows^TM window systems. The Korean Solaris 8 operating environment incorporates many facilities for handling Korean text and cultural conventions. It provides a set of commands and other features for the operation and maintenance of the Solaris operating environment and CDE facilities for Korean.

Localized Features

New Features

The following list summarizes new features of the Korean Solaris 8 operating environment:

Partial Locale Support in Solaris Software

Partial locales ko and ko.UTF-8 which support most of the Korean language features including minimum Bitmap Fonts, TrueType Fonts and Input Methods are now included in the Solaris 8 Software CDs. Other full locale features, including message translations and optional fonts are in the Solaris 8 Language CD.

New TrueType Fonts

The Korean Solaris 8 operating environment now supports the following TrueType fonts in Korean locales.

• h2drrm.ttf-- Hanyang Roundgothic medium

• h2gtrm.ttf-- Hanyang Kodig medium

• h2hsrm.ttf-- Hanyang Haeseo medium

• h2mjsm.ttf-- Hanyang Myeongjo medium.

New iconv Modules

Korean Solaris 8 provides new iconv modules to support Unified Hangul.

• UnifiedHangul%ko_KR-UTF-8.so

• ko_KR-UTF-8%UnifiedHangul.so

• ko_KR-cp949%ko_KR-UTF-8.so

• ko_KR-UTF-8%ko_KR-cp949.so

Other Localized Features

The following list summarizes key features of the Korean Solaris 8 operating environment:

• Contains the Korean Solaris operating environment, CDE, and OpenWindows

• Supports multibyte and wide characters

• Supports multiple character sets

• Supports different Korean coding conventions for the KS C 5601 and KS C 5700 character sets or file names and contents, terminals (TTY) and email contents, display messages, etc.

• Uses the regular Sun keyboards or the Hangul keyboard.

• Supports dedicated Korean input methods

• Uses Korean fonts for output with CDE facilities

• Interfaces with major existing equipment, using Completion code, Combination code, and the new Korean standard code (KS C 5601-1987, KS C 5601-1992, and KS C 5700-1995)

• Incorporates an open interface that allows system programmers to use their own Korean input conversion modules and font files

• Implements the ANSI C setlocale library to internationalize existing applications and to customize applications for local cultural conventions

• Provides Korean bitmap and scalable fonts

• Supports Korean input and output at the Xlib and toolkit level, including Motif toolkits

• Supports Korean messages for operating system commands, libraries, and applications

• Provides localized installation

• Provides localized Solaris Desktop Tools^TM that display Korean labels and messages; also supports user input of Korean text, file names, etc.