Summary of the Base Product
Solaris 7 includes partial locales, which provide the functionality needed for entering, displaying, and printing in local languages while using an English interface. It also includes the en_US.UTF-8 locale, which also uses an English interface, and supports the Unicode UTF-8 character encoding standard.
The base English Solaris 7 product includes the Euro full locales, a number of partial European locales as well as the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
The File System Safe Universal Transformation Format, or UTF-8, is an encoding defined by X/Open as a multi-byte representation of Unicode. UTF-8 is a variant of UNICODE. UTF-8 provides input and output support for all Solaris single-byte locales.
Partial locales can be split into two groups: the core set and the extended set. The core set is packaged in SUNWploc (operating system locale) and SUNWplow (window system locale). Since these packages are part of the end user cluster, they are installed automatically. The extended set of locales is packaged in SUNWploc1 (operating system locale) and SUNWplow1 (Window system locale). SUNWpldte has CDE support for the Eastern European locales.
SUNWploc1 and SUNWplow1 are available on the entire cluster only. SUNWploc1 and SUNWplow1 need to be added to your system before you can use the locales in the extended set.
Core Set of Locales
The core set of locales is installed automatically. The core sets are listed in Table 2-1.
Table 2-1 Core Set of Locales in SUNWploc and SUNWplow|
Locale |
Language |
Country |
Encoding |
|---|---|---|---|
|
de |
German |
Germany |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
en_AU |
English |
Australia |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
en_CA |
English |
Canada |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
en_UK changed to en_GB |
English |
Great Britain |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
en_US |
English |
United States |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
en_US.UTF-8 |
English |
United States |
UTF-8 |
|
es |
Spanish |
Spain |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_AR |
Spanish |
Argentina |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_BO |
Spanish |
Bolivia |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_CL |
Spanish |
Chile |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_CO |
Spanish |
Columbia |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_CR |
Spanish |
Costa Rica |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_EC |
Spanish |
Ecuador |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_GT |
Spanish |
Guatemala |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_MX |
Spanish |
Mexico |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_NI |
Spanish |
Nicaragua |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_PA |
Spanish |
Panama |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_PE |
Spanish |
Peru |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_PY |
Spanish |
Paraguay |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_SV |
Spanish |
El Salvador |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_UY |
Spanish |
Uruguay |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
es_VE |
Spanish |
Venezuela |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
fr |
French |
France |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
it |
Italian |
Italy |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
sv |
Swedish |
Sweden |
ISO-8859-1 |
New Locales
Solaris software already supports most of the Western European locales and, in this release, has focused on expanding its support for the Eastern European, Thai, and the Middle Eastern regions. New and changed user locales in the Solaris 7 operating environment are listed in Table 2-2
Table 2-2 New or Changed User Locales|
Region |
Locale Name |
ISO Codeset |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Albania |
sq_AL |
8859-2 |
|
|
Bosnia |
nr |
8859-2 |
|
|
Bulgaria |
bg_BG |
8859-5 |
|
|
Croatia |
hr_HR |
8859-2 |
|
|
Finland |
su changed to fi |
8859-15 |
Changed to comply with ISO standards |
|
France |
fr |
UTF-8 |
|
|
Germany |
de |
UTF-8 |
|
|
Macedonia |
mk_MK |
8859-5 |
|
|
Israel |
he |
8859-8 |
|
|
Italy |
it |
UTF-8 |
|
|
Norway (nynorsk) |
no_NY |
8859-1 |
|
|
P.R. China |
zh.GBK |
GBK |
GBK is a superset of GB2312 |
|
Romania |
ro_RO |
8859-2 |
|
|
Russia |
ru |
KOI-8 |
The default codeset has been changed to KOI-8 from ISO 8859-5 |
|
Saudi Arabia |
ar |
8859-6 |
|
|
Serbia |
sr_SP |
8859-5 |
|
|
Slovakia |
sk_SK |
8859-2 |
|
|
Slovenia |
sl_SI |
8859-2 |
|
|
Spain |
es |
UTF-8 |
|
|
Sweden |
sv |
UTF-8 |
|
|
Thailand |
th_TH |
TIS 620-2533 |
Thai character codeset has been registered to ISO 8859-11 |
|
Great Britain |
en_UK changed to en_GB |
8859-15 |
Changed to comply with ISO standards |
|
United States |
en_US |
UTF-8 |
Solaris 7 software has added support for the Euro currency by adding six new user locales. These are included in Table 2-3 Note that local currency symbols are still available for backwards compatibility.
Table 2-3 New User Locales To Support the Euro Currency|
Region |
Locale Name |
ISO Codeset |
|---|---|---|
|
Austria |
de_AT |
8859-15 |
|
Belgium (French) |
fr_BE |
8859-15 |
|
Belgium (Dutch) |
nl_BE |
8859-15 |
|
Denmark |
da |
8859-15 |
|
England |
en_EU |
8859-15 |
|
Finland |
su changed to fi |
8859-15 |
|
France |
fr |
8859-15 |
|
Germany |
de |
8859-15 |
|
Ireland |
en_IE |
8859-15 |
|
Italy |
it |
8859-15 |
|
Netherlands |
nl |
8859-15 |
|
Portugal |
pt |
8859-15 |
|
Spain |
es |
8859-15 |
|
Sweden |
sv |
8859-15 |
|
Great Britain |
en_GB |
8859-15 |
|
Europe |
en_EU |
8859-15 |
Extended Set of Locales
The extended set of locales is not installed automatically. If you want to use locales listed in Table 2-4 you need to install them manually.
Table 2-4 Extended Set of Locales in SUNWploc1 and SUNWplow1|
Locale |
Language |
Country |
Encoding |
|---|---|---|---|
|
cz |
Czech |
Czechoslovakia |
ISO-8859-2 |
|
da |
Danish |
Denmark |
ISO-8859-15 |
|
de_AT |
German |
Austria |
ISO-8859-15 |
|
de_CH |
German |
Switzerland |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
el |
Greek |
Greece |
ISO-8859-7 |
|
en_IE |
English |
Ireland |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
en_NZ |
English |
New Zealand |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
et |
Estonian |
Estonia |
ISO-8859-15 |
|
fr_BE |
French |
Belgium |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
fr_CA |
French |
Canada |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
fr_CH |
French |
Switzerland |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
hu |
Hungarian |
Hungary |
ISO-8859-2 |
|
lt |
Lithuanian |
Lithuania |
ISO-8859-13 |
|
lv |
Latvian |
Latvia |
ISO-8859-13 |
|
nl |
Dutch |
Netherlands |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
nl_BE |
Dutch |
Belgium |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
no |
Norwegian |
Norway |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
pl |
Polish |
Poland |
ISO-8859-2 |
|
pt |
Portuguese |
Portugal |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
pt_BR |
Portuguese |
Brazil |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
ru |
Russian |
Russia |
ISO-8859-5 |
|
su |
Finnish |
Finland |
ISO-8859-1 |
|
tr |
Turkish |
Turkey |
ISO-8859-9 |
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