Chapter 1 Starting the Simplified Chinese Solaris Software

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment must be specially set up for using Simplified Chinese text facilities. This chapter describes the steps required to set up an environment for running the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment provides two window environments: the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and OpenWindows. CDE is a fully internationalized environment; it does not require most of the administration tasks that OpenWindows requires to handle Simplified Chinese. For information on starting OpenWindows, see Appendix A, OpenWindows Information. The Simplified Chinese Solaris product includes the following locales:

• C--ASCII English environment

• zh--Simplified Chinese environment in extended UNIX code (EUC)

• zh.GBK--Simplified Chinese environment in GBK, an extension of GB2312-80 (that is Guo Biao Kuo in Chinese PinYin, which supports all CJK characters that are in Unicode 2.1).

• zh_CN.EUC--Symbolic link to zh locale.

• zh_CN.GBK--Symbolic link to zh.GBK locale.

• zh.UTF-8--Simplified Chinese environment in Unicode 3.0.

• zh_CN.UTF-8--Symbolic link to zh_CN.UTF-8.

The zh_CN.EUC, zh_TW.GBK, zh_CN.GBK, zh.UTF-8and zh_CN.UTF-8 locales support CDE but do not support the OpenWindows environment.

Installing the Simplified Chinese Solaris Software

Make sure the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment is installed as directed in the documents appropriate to your hardware platform:

• Solaris Advanced Installation Guide

• Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Information Library

• Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Information Library

• Asian Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes

• Asian Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Release Notes

Applications Defaults Files

The Simplified Chinese CDE includes the following directories for applications defaults, including one for system-wide defaults and two specific to locale features:

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/C directory stores system wide application defaults. These values are for the C locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh.GBK directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh.UTF-8 directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.

• The $OPENWINHOME/lib/locale/zh/app-defaults/Htt file has all htt resource default values that depend on that locale.