Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

Codesets for x86

The default codeset on the Solaris system for x86 is ISO-8859-1. The IBM DOS 437 codeset is provided as an option in text mode. That is, if you choose to download IBM DOS 437 codeset by typing:


loadfont -c 437
pcmapkeys -f /usr/share/lib/keyboards/437/en_US

there is no support for nonstandard U.S. date, time, currency, numbers, units, and collation. There will be no support for non-English message and text presentation, and no multibyte character support. Therefore, non-Microsoft Windows users should use the IBM DOS 437 codeset only in the default C locale.