Solaris 8 Software Developer Supplement

Chapter 4 Software Developer

This chapter describes new partial locales.


Note -

For the most up-to-date man pages, use the man command. The Solaris 8 Update release man pages include new feature information not found in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection.


Additional Partial Locales for European Solaris Software

This functionality is new in the Solaris 8 10/00 release.

The current identified features are the addition of UTF-8 locales for Russian and Polish and two new locales for Catalan. The locale names are as follows.

The additional locales are partial locales, because there is no language support (translation of messages and GUI).

Localization in the Base and Multilingual Solaris Product

Central Europe

Table 4-1 Central Europe

Locale 

User Interface 

Territory 

Codeset 

Language Support 

cs_CZ.ISO8859-2

English 

Czech Republic 

ISO8859-2 

Czech (Czech Republic) 

de_AT.ISO8859-1

German  

Austria 

ISO8859-1 

German (Austria)  

de_AT.ISO8859-15

German  

Austria 

ISO8859-15 

German (Austria, ISO8859-15 - Euro) 

de_CH.ISO8859-1

German  

Switzerland 

ISO8859-1 

German (Switzerland)  

de_DE.UTF-8

German  

Germany 

UTF-8 

German (Germany, Unicode 3.0) 

de_DE.ISO8859-1

German  

Germany 

ISO8859-1 

German (Germany) 

de_DE.ISO8859-15

German  

Germany 

ISO8859-15 

German (Germany, ISO8859-15 - Euro) 

fr_CH.ISO8859-1

French  

Switzerland 

ISO8859-1 

French (Switzerland) 

hu_HU.ISO8859-2

English 

Hungary 

ISO8859-2 

Hungarian (Hungary) 

pl_PL.ISO8859-2

English 

Poland 

ISO8859-2 

Polish (Poland) 

pl_PL.UTF-8

English 

Poland 

UTF-8 

Polish (Poland, Unicode 3.0) 

sk_SK.ISO8859-2

English 

Slovakia 

ISO8859-2 

Slovak (Slovakia) 

Eastern Europe

Table 4-2 Eastern Europe

Locale 

User Interface 

Territory 

Codeset 

Language Support 

bg_BG.ISO8859-5

English 

Bulgaria 

ISO8859-5 

Bulgarian (Bulgaria) 

et_EE.ISO8859-15

English 

Estonia 

ISO8859-15 

Estonian (Estonia) 

hr_HR.ISO8859-2

English 

Croatia 

ISO8859-2 

Croatian (Croatia) 

lt_LT.ISO8859-13

English 

Lithuania 

ISO8859-13 

Lithuanian (Lithuania) 

lv_LV.ISO8859-13

English 

Latvia 

ISO8859-13 

Latvian (Latvia) 

mk_MK.ISO8859-5

English 

Macedonia 

ISO8859-5 

Macedonian (Macedonia) 

ro_RO.ISO8859-2

English 

Romania 

ISO8859-2 

Romanian (Romania) 

ru_RU.KOI8-R

English 

Russia 

KOI8-R 

Russian (Russia, KOI8-R) ) 

ru_RU.ANSI1251

English 

Russia 

ansi-1251 

Russian (Russia, ANSI 1251) 

ru_RU.ISO8859-5

English 

Russia 

ISO8859-5 

Russia (Russia) 

ru_RU.UTF-8

English 

Russia 

UTF-8 

Russian (Russia Unicode 3.0) 

sh_BA.ISO8859-2@bosnia

English 

Bosnia 

ISO8859-2 

Bosnian (Bosnia) 

sl_SI.ISO8859-2

English 

Slovenia 

ISO8859-2 

Slovenian (Slovenia) 

sq_AL.ISO8859-2

English 

Albania 

ISO8859-2 

Albanian (Albania) 

sr_YU.ISO8859-5

English 

Serbia 

ISO8859-5 

Serbian (Serbia) 

tr_TR.ISO8859-9

English 

Turkey 

ISO8859-9 

Turkish (Turkey) 

South Europe

Table 4-3 South Europe

Locale 

User Interface 

Territory 

Codeset 

Language Support 

ca_ES.ISO8859-1

English 

Spain 

ISO8859-1 

Catalan (Spain) 

ca_ES.ISO8859-15

English 

Spain 

ISO8859-15 

Catalan (Spain, ISO8859-15 - Euro) 

el_GR.ISO8859-7

English 

Greece 

ISO8859-7 

Greek (Greece) 

es_ES.ISO8859-1

Spanish 

Spain 

ISO8859-1 

Spanish (Spain) 

es_ES.ISO8859-15

Spanish 

Spain 

ISO8859-15 

Spanish (Spain, ISO8859-15 - Euro) 

es_ES.UTF-8

Spanish 

Spain 

UTF-8 

Spanish (Spain, Unicode 3.0) 

it_IT.ISO8859-1

Italian 

Italy 

ISO8859-1 

Italian (Italy) 

it_IT.ISO8859-15

Italian 

Italy 

ISO8859-15 

Italian (Italy, ISO8859-15 - Euro) 

it_IT.UTF-8

Italian 

Italy 

UTF-8 

Italian (Italy, Unicode 3.0) 

pt_PT.ISO8859-1

English 

Portugal 

ISO8859-1 

Portuguese (Portugal) 

pt_PT.ISO8859-15

English 

Portugal 

ISO8859-15 

Portuguese Portugal, ISO8859-15 - Euro) 

European Localization

Solaris 8 software supports the euro currency. Local currency symbols are still available for backward compatibility.

Table 4-4 User Locales To Support the Euro Currency

Region 

Locale Name 

ISO Codeset 

Austria 

de_AT.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Belgium (French) 

fr_BE.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Belgium (Dutch) 

nl_BE.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Denmark 

da_DK.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Finland 

fi_FI.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

France 

fr_FR.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Germany 

de_DE.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Ireland 

en_IE.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Italy 

it_IT.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Netherlands 

nl_NL.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Portugal 

pt_PT.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Spain 

ca_ES.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Spain 

es_ES.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Sweden 

sv_SE.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

Great Britain 

en_GB.ISO8859-15

8859-15 

U.S.A. 

en_US.ISO8859-15

8859-15