Japanese Input Systems

Three Japanese input systems are bundled in Japanese Solaris 7. They can be used in the ja, ja_JP.PCK and ja_JP.UTF-8 locales. However, some maintenance utilities do not support the PCK codeset.

The Japanese Input System is shown below in Table 3-17.

Table 3-17 Japanese Input Systems

Name	Description
Wnn6	Wnn6 consists of the Kana-Kanji conversion server (jserver), interface module for htt (X Input Method Server) called xjsi.so, utilities, and dictionaries. Wnn6 is the default Japanese input system. Wnn6 supports JIS X 0201-1976, JIS X 0208-1990 and JIS X0212-1990 character sets.
ATOK8	ATOK8 consists of atok8 X Input Method Server, utilities, and dictionaries. ATOK8 is a popular Japanese input system facility in the Japanese PC market. ATOK7 was released with Solaris 2.1 until 2.5.1 has been replaced by ATOK8. ATOK8 supports JIS X 0201-1976 and JIS X 0208-1990 character sets.
cs00	cs00 consists of the Kana-Kanji conversion server (cs00), interface module for htt (X Input Method Server) called xci.so, utilities, and dictionaries. cs00 has been bundled with Japanese Solaris since Solaris 2.1 cs00 supports JIS X 0201-1976, JIS X 0208-1990 and JIS X 0212-1990 character sets.

Japanese TrueType Fonts are show below in Table 3-18.

Table 3-18 Japanese TrueType Fonts

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
hg gothic b	R	TrueType	RICOH	JISX0208.1983, JISX0201.1976
hg mincho l	R	TrueType	RICOH	JISX0208.1983, JISX0201.1976
heiseimin	R	TrueType	RICOH	JISX0212.1990

Japanese Bitmap Fonts are shown in Table 3-19 below.

Table 3-19 Japanese Bitmap Fonts

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
gothic	R, B	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)		JISX0208.1983,  JISX0201.1976
minchou	R	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)		JISX0208.1983,  JISX0201.1976
hg gothic b	R	PCF(12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JISX0208.1983, JISX0201.1976
hg mincho l	R	PCF(12,14,16,18,20,2)	RICOH	JISX0208.1983, JISX0201.1976
heiseimin	R	PCF(12,14,16,18,20,24)	RICOH	JISX0212.1990

Japanese Locales

Japanese Solaris 7 supports three locales. The ja locale is based on Japanese EUC. The ja_JP.PCK locale is based on PC-Kanji code (Shift JIS) and the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale is based on UTF-8.

Japanese Messages and man Pages

Some messages and manual pages have been translated into Japanese in Japanese Solaris 7.

Japanese Character Code Converter for iconv

The following table shows supported conversion with iconv(1) and iconv(3). See the iconv_ja(5)man page for details.

Table 3-20 shows iconv Conversion Support.

Table 3-20 iconv Conversion Support

Source Code	Target Code
eucJP	PCK
eucJP	JIS7
eucJP	SJIS
eucJP	UTF-8
eucJP	jis
eucJP	ibmj
SJIS	eucJP
SJIS	ISO-2022-JP
SJIS	UTF-8
SJIS	jis
SJIS	ibmj
PCK	eucJP
PCK	UTF-8
PCK	ISO-2022-JP
PCK	jis
PCK	ibmj
ISO-2022-JP	eucJP
ISO-2022-JP	PCK
ISO-2022-JP	SJIS
UTF-8	eucJP
UTF-8	SJIS
UTF-8	PCK
JIS7	eucJP
jis	eucJP
jis	PCK
jis	SJIS
ibmj	eucJP
ibmj	PCK
UTF-8	ISO-2022-JP
ISO-2022-JP	UTF-8
eucJP	UTF-8-Java
UTF-8-Java	eucJP
PCK	UTF-8-Java
UTF-8-Java	PCK
eucJP	ISO-2022-JP.RFC1468
PCK	ISO-2022-JP.RFC1468
UTF-8	ISO-2022-JP.RFC1468
eucJP	ibmj-EBCDIK
ibmj-EBCDIK	eucJP
PCK	ibmj-EBCDIK
ibmj-EBCDIK	PCK

Japanese Character Code Converter for TTY STREAMS

There are TTY STREAMS modules that perform code conversion between an encoding for a specific terminal and an encoding for a specific locale. With an appropriate STREAMS module, a user can log in from a Japanese terminal into a Japanese locale, even if the encoding between the terminal and the Japanese locale does not match. tty(1) controls the behavior of those STREAMS modules.

Japanese-specific Printer Support

The Japanese Solaris 7 product supports the following Japanese-specific printers:

• Epson VP-5085 (based on ESC/P)

• NEC PC-PR201 (based on 201PL)

• Canon LASERSHOT (based on LIPS)

• Japanese PostScript Printer

JLE Binary Compatibility Package

The Japanese Solaris 7 package also provides Japanese Solaris 1.1.x binary-compatibility packages that are the same as the base products.

User-Defined Character (UDC) Support

To handle User-Defined Characters, sdtudctool has been available since the Solaris 2.6 release. Sdtudctool handles both outline (Type1) and bitmap (PCF) fonts. Some utilities are also available to migrate the UDC fonts that were created by old utilities, such as fontedit, type3creator andfontmanager in prior releases.