3.2 Codeset Conversion

The Solaris operating environment locale supports enhanced code conversion among the major codesets of several countries. Figure 3-5 shows the codeset conversions between UTF-8 and many other codesets.

Figure 3-5 Unicode codeset conversions

Codesets can be converted using the sdtconvtool utility or the iconv(1) command. sdtconvtool detects available iconv code conversions and presents them in an easy-to-use format.

Figure 3-6 sdtconvtool for converting between codesets

Users can also add their own code conversions and use them in iconv(3) functions, iconv(1) command line utilities, and sdtconvtool(1). For more information on user-extensible, user-defined code conversions, refer to the geniconvtbl(1) and geniconvtbl(4) man pages.

Developers can use iconv(3) to access the same functionality. This includes conversions to and from UTF-8 and many ISO-standard codesets, including UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-7, UTF-16, KO18-R, Japanese EUC, Korean EUC, Simplified Chinese EUC, Traditional Chinese EUC, GBK, PCK (Shift JIS), BIG5, Johap, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-KR, and ISO-2022-CN.

For a detailed listing of the supported code conversions, see Appendix A, Codeset Conversions.