What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Language Support

Feature Description
Enhanced Language Framework Solaris software has expanded its Unicode support with the addition of six new UTF-8 locales: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Europe. Also, enhanced Unicode locale with multiscript capability is included. Users can type and display text from different writing scripts such as Japanese, Thai, and Russian. Users can also easily switch between the scripts without having to change to or install a new locale. Complex text support has been integrated for complex text layout languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai, which require special text preprocessing to handle bidirectional, composite, and context-sensitive text. Solaris 7 software implements the Internet Intranet Input Method Protocol (IIIMP) to enable seamless interoperability between the input methods provided in Solaris, Java, and non-X Windows applications. The Desktop Font Downloader enables users to download, remove, re-encode and convert fonts; check status; and perform other administrative tasks on a PostScript printer.
Expanded Locale Support The European Community (EC) has agreed to standardize on a single currency - the "euro" currency. Beginning January 1999, all foreign exchange, banking, and finance industries in the EC will convert from using their local currencies to using the euro. In anticipation of this change, Solaris 7 software has added support for the euro currency with six new user locales. Solaris software has added support for the Eastern European, Thai, and Middle Eastern regions.

Feature Description

Enhanced Language Framework

Solaris software has expanded its Unicode support with the addition of six new UTF-8 locales: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Europe. Also, enhanced Unicode locale with multiscript capability is included. Users can type and display text from different writing scripts such as Japanese, Thai, and Russian. Users can also easily switch between the scripts without having to change to or install a new locale.
Complex text support has been integrated for complex text layout languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai, which require special text preprocessing to handle bidirectional, composite, and context-sensitive text.

Solaris 7 software implements the Internet Intranet Input Method Protocol (IIIMP) to enable seamless interoperability between the input methods provided in Solaris, Java, and non-X Windows applications.

The Desktop Font Downloader enables users to download, remove, re-encode and convert fonts; check status; and perform other administrative tasks on a PostScript printer.

Expanded Locale Support

The European Community (EC) has agreed to standardize on a single currency - the "euro" currency. Beginning January 1999, all foreign exchange, banking, and finance industries in the EC will convert from using their local currencies to using the euro. In anticipation of this change, Solaris 7 software has added support for the euro currency with six new user locales.

Solaris software has added support for the Eastern European, Thai, and Middle Eastern regions.