Chapter 1 Overview of Features

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

Localized Features

New Features

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

Support for zh_TW.UTF-8

The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment now includes the zh_TW.UTF-8locale whch supports Unicode 3.0.

Partial Locale Support in Solaris 8 CDs

The Solaris 8 Software CDs now included partial zh_TW, zh_TW.BIG5 and zh_TW.F-8, which support most Traditional Chinese language features including minimum Bitmap Fonts, TrueTypeFonts and Input Methods. Other full locale features, including message translations and optional fonts are in the Solaris 8 Language CD.

New iconv Modules

Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 provides new iconv modules to support BIG5+.

• zh_TW-big5p%UTF-8.so

• UTF-8%zh_TW-big5p.so

Other Localized Features

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

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

• Supports multibyte and wide characters

• Supports multiple character sets

• Supports different Traditional Chinese coding conventions for the CNS 11643-92 character set for file names and contents, terminals (TTY) and email contents, display messages, and so on

• Uses the regular Sun keyboards or the new Sun Chinese keyboard

• Supports dedicated Traditional Chinese input methods

• Uses Traditional Chinese fonts for output with CDE facilities

• Interfaces with major existing equipment, using CNS 11643-92 and Big5 code

• Incorporates an open interface that allows system programmers to use their own Traditional 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 Traditional Chinese bitmap and scalable fonts

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

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

• Provides localized installation

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

The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment provides users with a tool, runb5, that allows terminal-based Big5 applications to run under Sun's TTY window environment.

The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment includes a print filter that allows the Chinese characters in CNS 11643 format to be printed on an Epson dot matrix printer. The Chinese characters are sent to the printer in CNS format or in downloaded bitmap data format. For more information, see Chapter 4, "Setting Up Traditional Chinese Solaris Printing Facilities" in the Traditional Chinese Solaris System Administrator's Guide.

Input Modes

The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment is localized for the following input modes:

• ASCII/English

• Array

• BoShiaMy

• DaYi

• ChuYin

• I-Tien

• Telecode

• TsangChieh

• ChienI

• NeiMa

• ChuanHsing

Standards Support

The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment conforms to the revised code set standard CNS 11643, which was updated in late 1992. The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment also supports planes 1, 2, and 3, and BIG5 and Unicode 3.0. Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 also conforms to CNS 5205 and CNS 7654.