Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

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