Localization Bugs That Occur During Installation

English and European ISO-15 Locales Might Not Install Correctly (4645678)

If you select an English or European ISO-15 locale to use during an interactive installation from the Solaris 9 Software DVD, the ISO-15 and corresponding ISO-1 locale might not be installed. This problem occurs because the English or European ISO-15 locale you specify in the Select a Locale screen might not be selected automatically on the Select a Geographic Region screen.

Workaround: If you want to install the English or European ISO-15 locale you use during the installation, follow these steps.

1. In the Select a Locale screen, select the English or European ISO-15 locale to use during the installation.

2. In the Select a Geographic Region screen, select the appropriate English or European ISO-15 and ISO-1 locale you want to install on the system.

If you do not check the Select a Geographic Region screen to make sure the appropriate English or European ISO-15 and ISO-1 locale is selected for installation, the locale might not be installed.

Solaris 9 Beta Refresh Chinese CDE Font Packages Do Not Upgrade to Solaris 9 Operating Environment (4653908)

If you upgrade to the Solaris 9 operating environment on a system running the Solaris 9 Beta Refresh operating environment with Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese locale support, the upgrade does not complete successfully. The Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese CDE font localization packages (SUNWcdft or SUNWhdft) do not upgrade to the appropriate Solaris 9 packages. The following error message is displayed.

Removing package SUNWcdft:
/a/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcdft/install/postremove: 
  /a/usr/dt/config/xfonts/zh_CN.EUC: does not exist
/a/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcdft/install/postremove: 
  /a/usr/dt/config/xfonts/zh_CN.GBK: does not exist
/a/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcdft/install/postremove: 
  /a/usr/dt/config/xfonts/zh_CN.UTF-8: does not exist
pkgrm: ERROR: postremove script did not complete successfully

Workaround: Before you upgrade to the Solaris 9 operating environment, remove the appropriate Solaris 9 Beta Refresh postremove files.

# rm /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcdft/install/postremove
# rm /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWhdft/install/postremove

Upgrading Systems Running Solaris 8 Operating Environment With Full Thai/Russian/Polish/Catalan Support Leaves Invalid Packages on System (4650059)

If you upgrade to the Solaris 9 operating environment on a system running the Solaris 8 operating environment with the Solaris 8 Language Supplement CD installed, several invalid Thai, Russian, Polish, and Catalan locale packages remain on the system. These locale packages have an ARCH=sparcall value, and are not removed during the upgrade to the Solaris 9 operating environment.

Workaround: Before you upgrade to the Solaris 9 operating environment, use the Solaris Product Registry application to remove the Solaris 8 Languages Supplement CD packages.

Installing Only Some European Locales Causes Characters to Not Display in UTF-8 Locale (4634077)

If you install one or more of a specific set of European locales, the system might not display any characters outside of the English or European character set in the UTF-8 codeset of the locale. This problem occurs under the following conditions.

• You install one or more of the following locales.

  • Middle East/Israel (ISO8859-8)

  • Northern Africa/Egypt (ISO8859-6)

  • Eastern Europe/Russia (ISO8859-5)

  • Eastern Europe/Turkey (ISO8859-9)

  • South America/Brazil (ISO8859-1)

  • Central Europe/Poland (ISO8859-2)

• You install no other locales on the system.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• During the installation, install both the en_US.UTF-8 North America/U.S.A. locale and the European locale you want on the system.

• After the installation is completed, use the pkgadd utility to add the following packages to your system.

  • SUNW5ttf -- Traditional Chinese BIG5 True Type Fonts Package

  • SUNWcttf -- Simplified Chinese (EUC) True Type Fonts

  • SUNWiiimr -- Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework Package (Root)

  • SUNWiiimu -- Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework Package (Usr)

  • SUNWinleu -- Indic Locale Environment User Files

  • SUNWinlex -- Indic Language Environment user files (64-bit)

  • SUNWinttf -- Indic True Type Fonts

  • SUNWjxcft -- Japanese Required TrueType Font

  • SUNWkttf -- Korean True Type Fonts

  • SUNWtleu -- Thai Locale Environment User Files

  • SUNWtleux -- Thai Language Environment user files (64-bit)

  These packages are available from the Solaris_9/Product directory on the Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD or CD image.

  For example, if you install the Solaris 9 operating environment from the Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD, type the following commands.

  # cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_9/Product # pkgadd -d . SUNW5ttf # pkgadd -d . SUNWcttf

  Repeat this pkgadd command for each package in the previous list.