The following list summarizes new features of the Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment:
The Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 operating environment now includes the zh_TW.UTF-8locale whch supports Unicode 3.0.
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.
Traditional Chinese Solaris 8 provides new iconv modules to support BIG5+.
zh_TW-big5p%UTF-8.so
UTF-8%zh_TW-big5p.so
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 ToolsTM 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.
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
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.