Simplified Chinese Localization

Simplified Chinese in the Solaris 9 environment provides four locales: zh, zh.GBK, zh_CN.GB18030, and zh.UTF-8. In the zh locale, the EUC scheme is used to encode GB2312–80. The zh.GBK locale supports the GBK codeset, which is a superset of GB2312–80.

The new GB18030–2000 codeset is now supported in the zh_CN.GB18030 locale.

Simplified Chinese is used mostly in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and in Singapore.

The following input methods are supported for the zh locale:

• New QuanPin

• New ShuangPin

• QuanPin

• ShuangPin

• GB2312 NeiMa

• English-Chinese

• Optional codetable input methods

• Input method auxiliary window support for Simplified Chinese

The following input methods are supported for the zh_CN.GB18030 locale:

• New QuanPin

• New ShuangPin

• QuanPin

• ShuangPin

• GB18030–2000 NeiMa

• English-Chinese

• Optional codetable input methods

• Input method auxiliary window support for Simplified Chinese

The following input methods are supported for both the zh.GBK and the zh.UTF-8 locales:

• New QuanPin

• New ShuangPin

• QuanPin

• ShuangPin

• GBK NeiMa

• English-Chinese

• Optional codetable input methods

• Input method auxiliary window support for Simplified Chinese

The auxiliary window for Chinese input methods provides a friendly and extensible input method user interface for all Chinese locales. See Input Method Auxiliary Window Support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

For more detailed information about auxiliary windows for Chinese input methods, please see Simplified Chinese User's Guide and Traditional Chinese User's Guide.

The following table shows the TrueType fonts for the zh locale.

Table 4–2 TrueType Fonts for the zh_CN.EUC Locale

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
Fangsong	R	TrueType	Hanyi	GB2312.1980
Hei	R	TrueType	Monotype	GB2312.1980
Kai	R	TrueType	Monotype	GB2312.1980
Song	R	TrueType	Monotype	GB2312.1980

The following table shows the bitmap fonts for the zh locale.

Table 4–3 Bitmap Fonts for the zh_CN.EUC Locale

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Encoding
Song	B	PCF (14,16)	GB2312.1980
Song	R	PCF (12,14,16,20,24)	GB2312.1980

The following table shows the TrueType fonts for the zh_CN.GBK locale.

Table 4–4 TrueType Fonts for the zh_CN.GBK Locale

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
Fangsong	R	TrueType	Zhongyi	GBK
Hei	R	TrueType	Zhongyi	GBK
Kai	R	TrueType	Zhongyi	GBK
Song	R	TrueType	Zhongyi	GBK

The following table shows the bitmap fonts for the zh_CN.GBK locale.

Table 4–5 Bitmap Fonts for the zh_CN.GBK Locale

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Encoding
Song	R	PCF (12,14,16,20,24)	GBK

The following table shows the TrueType fonts for the zh_CN.GB18030 locale.

Table 4–6 TrueType Fonts for the zh_CN.GB18030 Locale

Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
FangSong	R	TrueType	FangZheng	GB18030–2000
Song	R	TrueType	FangZheng	GB18030–2000
Hei	R	TrueType	FangZheng	GB18030–2000
Kai	R	TrueType	FangZheng	GB18030–2000

The following table shows bitmap fonts for the zh_CN.GB18030 locale.

Table 4–7 Bitmap Fonts for the zh_CN.GB18030 Locale

Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Encoding
Song	R	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)	GB18030–2000

The following table shows the supported codeset conversions for Simplified Chinese.

Table 4–8 Codeset Conversions for Simplified Chinese

Code	Symbol	Target Code	Symbol
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	ISO 2022-7	zh_CN.iso2022-7
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	ISO 2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	UTF-8	UTF-8
GB18030	zh_CN.gb18030	UTF-8	UTF-8
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	GB2312–80	zh_CN.euc
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	UTF-8	UTF-8
ISO2022-7	zh_CN.iso2022-7	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
ISO2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
ISO2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN	UTF-8	UTF-8
ISO2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN	zh.GBK	zh_CN.gbk
UTF-8	UTF-8	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
UTF-8	UTF-8	GB18030	zh_CN.gb18030
UTF-8	UTF-8	ISO2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN
UTF-8	UTF-8	zh.GBK	zh_CN.gbk
zh.GBK	zh_CN.gbk	ISO2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN
zh.GBK	zh_CN.gbk	UTF-8	UTF-8