What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Language Support

Feature Description
Universal Language Coverage The Solaris 8 operating environment now includes support for more than 90 locales, covering 37 languages on both the Solaris 8 Software CDs and the Solaris 8 Languages CD.
Improved Language Installation and Setup Changes to packaging on the language CD have reduced the storage requirements for a mixed language installation. A redesign of the install interface makes language selection and grouping extremely intuitive.
Expanded Unicode Support The Solaris 8 release continues to broaden support for Unicode with the addition of new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Customer-Extensible Codeset Conversion `(geniconvtbl)` With the Solaris 8 operating environment, developers can easily create and add to the Solaris system their own user-defined codeset conversions by using the `geniconvtbl` utility. Modification to existing Solaris codeset conversions is also supported.
Improved Data Interoperability Data interoperability with non-Solaris environments has been improved in the Solaris 8 release with the addition of the following new `iconv` data conversion utilities: `iconv` for Japanese mainframe data types `iconv` for Microsoft data encodings (including user-defined characters) `iconv` for UTF-8 interoperability in the People's Republic of China and Korea `iconv` for various Unicode encoding formats and international and de facto industry standard codesets
New Locales Added Two new locales have been added to the Solaris 8 release for Iceland (`ISO8859-15`) and Russia (`ANSI1251`). The new Russian locale is in addition to the existing Russian (`8859-5`) locale and provides native Microsoft data-encoding support.

Feature Description

Universal Language Coverage

The Solaris 8 operating environment now includes support for more than 90 locales, covering 37 languages on both the Solaris 8 Software CDs and the Solaris 8 Languages CD.

Improved Language Installation and Setup

Changes to packaging on the language CD have reduced the storage requirements for a mixed language installation. A redesign of the install interface makes language selection and grouping extremely intuitive.

Expanded Unicode Support

The Solaris 8 release continues to broaden support for Unicode with the addition of new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Customer-Extensible Codeset Conversion (geniconvtbl)

With the Solaris 8 operating environment, developers can easily create and add to the Solaris system their own user-defined codeset conversions by using the geniconvtbl utility. Modification to existing Solaris codeset conversions is also supported.

Improved Data Interoperability

Data interoperability with non-Solaris environments has been improved in the Solaris 8 release with the addition of the following new iconv data conversion utilities:

iconv for Japanese mainframe data types
iconv for Microsoft data encodings (including user-defined characters)
iconv for UTF-8 interoperability in the People's Republic of China and Korea
iconv for various Unicode encoding formats and international and de facto industry standard codesets

New Locales Added

Two new locales have been added to the Solaris 8 release for Iceland (ISO8859-15) and Russia (ANSI1251). The new Russian locale is in addition to the existing Russian (8859-5) locale and provides native Microsoft data-encoding support.