Chapter 1 Overview of Features

The Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment is the SunSoft^TM internationalization and Simplified Chinese localization of the Solaris operating environment as well as the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and OpenWindows^TM window systems. The Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment incorporates many facilities for handling Simplified Chinese 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 Simplified Chinese.

The Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment is part of the Sun® internationalization efforts, which include and integrate many Asian and European languages.

Localized Features

New Features

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

Locale

The Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment includes the zh.UTF-8 locale which supports Unicode 3.0.

Partial Locales Supported in Solaris Software CDs

Now partial zh, zh.GBK and zh.UTF-8 which support most Simplified Chiniese features including minimum Bitmap Fonts, TrueType Fonts and Input Methods are included on the Solaris 8 Software CDs. Other full locale features, including message translations and optional fonts are on the Solaris 8 Language CD.

New iconv Modules

Solaris 8 provides new iconv modules to support HZ-GB-2312.

• HZ-GB-2312%UTF-8.so

• HZ-GB-2312%zh_CN.euc.so

• HZ-GB-2312%zh_CN.gbk.so

• UTF-8%HZ-GB-2312.so

• zh_CN.euc%HZ-GB-2312.so

Other Localized Features

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

• Contains the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment, CDE, and OpenWindows

• Supports multibyte and wide characters

• Supports multiple character sets

• Supports different Simplified Chinese coding conventions for the GB2312-80 character set for file names and contents, terminals (TTY) and email contents, display messages, and so on

• Uses the regular Sun keyboards

• Supports dedicated Simplified Chinese input methods

• Allows users to add new input methods with the code table interface

• Uses Simplified Chinese fonts for output with CDE facilities

• Interfaces with major existing equipment, using GB2312-80 code

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

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

• Provides Simplified Chinese bitmap and scalable fonts

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

• Supports Simplified Chinese messages for operating system commands, libraries, and applications

• Provides localized installation

• Provides localized Solaris Desktop Tools^TM that display Simplified Chinese labels and messages; also supports user input of Simplified Chinese text, file names, and so on

Input Methods

The Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment is localized for the following input methods:

• zh, zh.GBK and zh.UTF-8 locales

  • New Pinyin

  • New Shuang Pin

  • Quan Pin Yin

• zh locale

  • Location Code

  • Pinyin

  • Full Pinyin

  • Stroke

  • Golden

  • Intelligent Pinyin

  • Chinese Symbol (two-column ASCII characters)

• zh.GBK and zh.UTF-8 locales

  • Japanese (kanji)

  • Hanja

  • Zhuyin

  • Unicode

• zh.GBK locale

  • GBK code

The Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment provides a code table interface for adding other input methods.