3.3 European Unicode Locales

In the Solaris 8 operating environment, five European Unicode locales offer the same level of support as en_US.UTF-8 with modifications for language and cultural data.

The five European Unicode locales are:

• fr_FR.UTF-8 (French)

• de_DE.UTF-8 (German)

• it_IT.UTF-8 (Italian)

• es_ES.UTF-8 (Spanish)

• sv_SE.UTF-8 (Swedish)

Each locale contains the same feature set as en_US.UTF-8 and regional definitions for numeric notation, date and time, currency, and translated text messages.

The following additional five European locales support the Euro currency symbol and monetary formatting conventions:

• fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (French with euro monetary convention)

• de_DE.UTF-8@euro (German with euro monetary convention)

• it_IT.UTF-8@euro (Italian with euro monetary convention)

• es_ES.UTF-8@euro (Spanish with euro monetary convention)

• sv_SE.UTF-8@euro (Swedish with euro monetary convention)

All Unicode locales (including en_US.UTF-8 and Asian Unicode locales) support input and output of the new euro currency symbol.

Figure 3-7 Euro currency symbol