Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

New Internationalization Features in Solaris 7

Increased Unicode support
- Unicode 2.0 supported through English and Korean locales.
- Six new UTF-8 Unicode locales added: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Europe. (Europe returns the Euro as the default currency symbol).
- UTF-8 locales support multiple input and output for all European locales as well as Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Enhancements have been made to the en_US.UTF-8 locale so that users can input and display text from different writing scripts such as Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean and Russian. Users can easily switch between the scripts without having to change or install a new locale.
Codeset conversion utilities have been enhanced for better data interoperability in the Russian locale.
Expanded language coverage
- Euro currency. All foreign exchange, banking, and finance industries in the European community are converting from using their local currencies to using the Euro. Solaris 7 software has added support for the Euro currency with six new user locales.
- CDE applications included in Asian versions to support Complex Text Layout (CTL) locales. Complex text support has been integrated for complex text layout languages, which require special text pre-processing to handle bidirectional, composite, and context-sensitive text.
- Solaris 7 software supports Motif 2.1, which includes five new Motif widgets. Motif 2.1 is MT-safe and includes software for CTL locale support.
- zh.GBK locale for Simplified Chinese in the People's Republic of China. This feature supports GBK Character Set, a superset of GB2312 which is used in the zh locale.
- The English and European translations for the Solaris 7 operating environment have been combined on a single CD. As a result, more locale selections are available during installation of this combined CD than were seen previously.
- The Desktop Font Downloader allows users to download, remove, re-encode and convert fonts, check status, and perform other administrative tasks on a PostScipt printer.