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.