Solaris 8 10/01 What's New Supplement

Language Support

Feature Description	Release Date
Expanded Unicode Support The File System Safe Universal Transformation Format, or UTF-8, is an encoding defined by X/Open as a multibyte representation of Unicode. UTF-8 encompasses almost all of the characters for traditional single-byte and multibyte locales for European and Asian languages for Solaris locales. For the 10/00 release, Russian and Polish and two new locales for Catalan are added. For the 4/01 release, two additional languages, Turkish UTF-8 Codeset and Russian UTF-8 Codeset, are added to a table of already existing Eastern European locales. For more information, see "Additional Partial Locales for European Solaris Software" in the Solaris 8 Software Developer Supplement.	10/00 Updated 4/01
Print filter enhancement - the `mp` program The `mp` program accepts international text files of various Solaris locales and produces output that is proper for the specified locale. The output will also contain proper text layout, for instance, bidirectional text rendering and shaping, as the complex text layout (CTL) is supported in `mp`. Depending on each locale's system font configuration for `mp`, the PostScript^TM output file can contain glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts. For more information, see "Print Filter Enhancement mp(1)" in the Solaris 8 Software Developer Supplement.	4/01
Thai Wordbreaker The Solaris 8 1/01 release includes a new text boundary resolution framework for Asian languages. With this framework, CDE applications and Motif libraries do the proper locale-specific text boundary resolution in all locales. The feature, including changes to the CDE/Motif library, is included in `libXm.so.4`. The Thai text boundary resolution module is a new feature that provides correct word breaks for sentence strings in the Thai language. The Thai locale now supports correct word-boundary handling of Motif widgets.	1/01

Feature Description

Release Date

Expanded Unicode Support

The File System Safe Universal Transformation Format, or UTF-8, is an encoding defined by X/Open as a multibyte representation of Unicode. UTF-8 encompasses almost all of the characters for traditional single-byte and multibyte locales for European and Asian languages for Solaris locales. For the 10/00 release, Russian and Polish and two new locales for Catalan are added. For the 4/01 release, two additional languages, Turkish UTF-8 Codeset and Russian UTF-8 Codeset, are added to a table of already existing Eastern European locales.

For more information, see "Additional Partial Locales for European Solaris Software" in the Solaris 8 Software Developer Supplement.

10/00

Updated 4/01

Print filter enhancement - the mp program

The mp program accepts international text files of various Solaris locales and produces output that is proper for the specified locale. The output will also contain proper text layout, for instance, bidirectional text rendering and shaping, as the complex text layout (CTL) is supported in mp. Depending on each locale's system font configuration for mp, the PostScript^TM output file can contain glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts.

For more information, see "Print Filter Enhancement mp(1)" in the Solaris 8 Software Developer Supplement.

4/01

Thai Wordbreaker

The Solaris 8 1/01 release includes a new text boundary resolution framework for Asian languages. With this framework, CDE applications and Motif libraries do the proper locale-specific text boundary resolution in all locales. The feature, including changes to the CDE/Motif library, is included in libXm.so.4. The Thai text boundary resolution module is a new feature that provides correct word breaks for sentence strings in the Thai language. The Thai locale now supports correct word-boundary handling of Motif widgets.

1/01