Asian Solaris Operating Environment Locales

The Asian Solaris products include the following locales, the English UTF-8 locale, and a number of partial locales (partial locales are locales that do not contain translated messages). For more information, see Solaris Internationalization Guide for Developers.

• Korean Solaris includes:

  • ko - the Korean environment in EUC (KS C 5601).

  • ko.UTF-8 - the Korean environment in Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) Transmission Format (KS C 5700). This encoding does not support the OpenWindows environment.

• Simplified Chinese Solaris includes zh - the Simplified Chinese environment in EUC

• Traditional Chinese Solaris includes:

  • zh_TW - the Simplified Chinese environment in EUC.

  • zh_TW.BIG5 - the Traditional Chinese environment in Big5. This encoding does not support the OpenWindows environment.

Typically, an application uses the value of the LANG environment variable to set each category that has not previously been set explicitly using LC_XXX. In the Korean or Chinese Solaris environments, the value of the LANG environment variable is as follows:

• ko and ko.UTF-8 for Korean

• zh for Simplified Chinese

• zh_TW and zh_TW.BIG5 for Traditional Chinese

• C for the English locale

• en_US.UTF-8 the locale that handles multiple scripts simultaneously

All Asian applications must be internationalized. For details on this process, see Solaris Internationalization Guide for Developers.