Chapter 1 Starting the Traditional Chinese Solaris Software

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

The Traditional 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 Traditional Chinese. For information on starting OpenWindows, see Appendix A, "OpenWindows Information." The Traditional Chinese Solaris product includes the following locales:

• C - ASCII English environment

• zh_TW--Traditional Chinese environment in extended Unix Code (EUC) that supports CNS 11643-1992 standard.

• zh_TW.BIG5 - Traditional Chinese environment in Big5 code

• tchinese--Symbolic links to zh_TW locale

• zh_TW.EUC-- Symbolic links to zh_TW locale

• zh_TW.UTF-8--Traditional Chinese environment in Unicode 3.0.

• C

The zh_TW.BIG5, zh_TW.EUC and zh_TW.UTF-8 locales support CDE but do not support the OpenWindows environment.

Installing Traditional Chinese Solaris Software

Make sure the Traditional 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

• Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Asian Release Notes

• Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Asian Release Notes

Applications Defaults Files

The Traditional Chinese CDE includes three directories for applications defaults. One is for system-wide defaults, and two are 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_TW directory stores application defaults that are specific to the zh_TW locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_TW.BIG5 directory stores application default values specific to the zh_TW.BIG5 locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_TW.UTF-8 directory stores application default values specific to the zh_TW.UTF-8 locale.

The /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW.UTF-8/app-defaults/Htt file has all htt resource default values that depend on the zh_TW.UTF-8 locale.