Language Support

Universal Language Coverage

The Solaris 9 operating environment now includes support for 162 locale environments, covering 39 languages on the Solaris 9 Software CDs, the Solaris 9 DVD, and the Solaris 9 Languages CD.  

For further information, see "Language Support". Also, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 9 

Enhanced Asian Language Support

The Solaris 9 release offers broader support for the Asian languages with new input methods and collation sequences for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Thai. This release also supports new native locale environments for Hong Kong (zh_HK.BIG5HK) and China (GB18030).

For further information about Asian language support in the Solaris 9 release, see "Language Support". Also, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 9 

Support for the New Chinese GB18030-2000 Character Set

Beginning with the Solaris 8 2/02 release, the Solaris platform enables input, display, and print for the entire GB18030-2000 character set (including nearly 30,000 characters). Any application that runs on the Solaris platform can thus benefit from a wider set of Chinese characters. See "Language Support" for further information on this feature.

Solaris 8 2/02 

Improved Data Interoperability

Data interoperability with non-Solaris environments has been improved in the Solaris 9 release with the addition of new iconv utilities for data conversion between UTF-8 and the following native encodings: HKSCS, GB18030, ISO 8859-11, and Hindi. Additionally, Japanese language support has been expanded through iconv modules that convert between Solaris Japanese locale codesets and Japanese mainframe codesets from Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC.

For further information on language support in the Solaris 9 release, See "Language Support". Also, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 9 

New European and Middle Eastern Keyboard Support

The Solaris 9 release has added Sun I/O keyboard support for TurkeyQ, TurkeyF, and Arabic, and support for the Sun Ray USB keyboard for TurkeyQ, TurkeyF, Belgian, and Arabic.  

For further information about European and Middle Eastern language support in the Solaris 9 release, see "Language Support". Also, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 9 

New TrueType Fonts

The new TrueType fonts provide a common appearance between the codesets and offer support for the same typefaces across the codesets. The TrueType fonts are common to all European locales. Each Asian locale has its own TrueType fonts file. 

For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 9 

Expanded Unicode Support

The Solaris 9 release offers broader support for Unicode with the addition of new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium-Walloon.  

For further information about Unicode support in the Solaris 9 release, see "Language Support". Also, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 8 10/00 

Updated in Solaris 8 4/01 and in Solaris 9 

Print Filter Enhancement - the mp Program

The mp(1) program accepts international text files from various Solaris locales and produces output for the specified locale. Because the complex text layout (CTL) is supported in mp, the output contains proper text layout, such as bidirectional text rendering and shaping. Depending on the mp system font configuration for each locale, the PostScript output file can contain glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts.

For more information, see "Print Filter Enhancement mp(1)" in the International Language Environments Guide.

Solaris 8 4/01