The following features are new to the Solaris 9 release:
Additional Unicode (UTF-8 ) locale support features for Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium (Walloon).
Latin-3 character support in Unicode locales.
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Big5+HKSCS locale (zh_HK.BIG5HK).
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) UTF-8 locale (zh_HK.UTF-8).
Thai UTF-8 locale (th_TH.UTF-8).
Hindi UTF-8 locale (hi_IN.UTF-8).
ISCII iconv module to support conversion between ISCII and UTF-8 encodings.
New zh_CN.GB18030 locale to support the new GB18030–2000 standard.
New Chinese input methods.
Thai input methods enhancement.
Input Method Auxiliary Window support for Asian Solaris.
Additional Japanese iconv module conversions for Fujitsu JEF, Hitachi KEIS and NEC JIPS.
Euro currency. Only those locales participating in using the euro have the euro symbol defined as their national currency symbol. The other ISO8859-15 locales support the euro symbol.
Enhanced Unicode iconv modules. The iconv modules have been added and enhanced for various new Unicode encoding formats and international and de facto industry standard codesets.
Unicode 3.1 support in Unicode locales.
Support of new iconv code conversions for ISO8859–16.