Organization and Summary

The chapters in this guide are organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, Solaris Internationalization Overview, tells what's new and provides an overview of the localized products available on the base Solaris release, the European localized release, and the Asian localized releases.

• Chapter 2, Contents of the Base Solaris Product, describes the contents of the Solaris 7 base product as it relates to locales.

• Chapter 3, Contents of the Localized Solaris 7 Products, describes Codeset Independence (CSI) support for Extended UNIX® Code (EUC) and non-EUC codesets.

• Chapter 4, Overview of en_US.UTF-8 Locale Support, covers the system environment, code conversions, script selection, printing, and the programming environment.

• Chapter 5, Installation, describes the procedures for installing the localization packages.

• Chapter 6, Internationalization Framework in the Solaris 7 Environment, contains details about the internationalization features incorporated into this release.

• Chapter 7, X/DPS, contains a detailed look at the procedures to write a localized version of codesets, formats, collation, and messaging.

• Chapter 8, Desktop Environments, covers the Solaris desktop environments: the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and OpenWindows^TM. The section on CDE has an overview of the application internationalization process, including locale management, localized resources, and font management.

• Chapter 9, Printing, covers printing support under the Solaris 7 operating environment, with specific information for European and Asian printing.

• Chapter 10, Complex Text Layout, includes information about CTL extensions that enable Motif APIs to support writing systems that require complex transformation between logical and physical text representations, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.