Traditional Chinese Localization

Traditional Chinese in the Solaris 9 product provides five locales:

• zh_TW.EUC where the EUC scheme is used to encode the CNS11643.1992 codeset

• zh_TW.BIG5 where the locale supports Big5

• zh_TW.UTF-8 where the locale supports Unicode 3.1

• zh_HK.BIG5HK where the locale supports Big5-HKSCS

• zh_HK.UTF-8 where the locale supports Unicode 3.1

Traditional Chinese is used mostly in Taiwan and Hong Kong, China. The following input methods are supported in the zh_TW.EUC, zh_TW.BIG5, and zh_TW.UTF-8 locales:

• New ChuYin

• ChuYin

• TsangChieh

• Array

• BoShiaMy

• DaYi

• JianYi

• Cantonese

• EUC NeiMa

• Big5 NeiMa

• English-Chinese

• Optional codetable input methods (such as PinYin)

• Input method auxiliary window support for Traditional Chinese

The following input methods are supported in the zh_HK.BIG5HK and zh_HK.UTF-8 locales.

• ChuYin

• TsangChieh

• Array

• BoShiaMy

• DaYi

• JianYi

• Cantonese

• BIG5+HKSCS NeiMa

• English-Chinese

• Optional codetable input methods (such as PinYin)

• Input method auxiliary window support for Traditional Chinese

• New ChuYin

The following table shows the Traditional Chinese TrueType Fonts for the zh_TW locales.

Table 4–9 Traditional Chinese TrueType Fonts for the zh_TW Locales

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
Hei	R	TrueType	Hanyi	CNS11643.1992
Kai	R	TrueType	Hanyi	CNS11643.1992
Ming	R	TrueType	Hanyi	CNS11643.1992

The following table shows the Traditional Chinese bitmap fonts for the zh_TW locales.

Table 4–10 Traditional Chinese Bitmap Fonts for the zh_TW Locales

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Encoding
Ming	R	PCF (12,14,16,20,24)	CNS11643.1992

The following table shows the TrueType fonts for the zh_HK.BIG5HK locale.

Table 4–11 TrueType Fonts for the zh_HK.BIG5HK Locale

Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Vendor	Encoding
Ming	R	TrueType	FangZheng	Big5–HKSCS
Hei	R	TrueType	FangZheng	Big5–HKSCS
Kai	R	TrueType	FangZheng	Big5–HKSCS

The following table shows the bitmap fonts for the zh_HK.BIG5HK locale.

Table 4–12 Bitmap Fonts for the zh_HK.BIG5HK Locale

Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Encoding
Ming	R	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)	Big5–HKSCS

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

Table 4–13 Codeset Conversions for Traditional Chinese

Code	Symbol	Target Code	Symbol
BIG5	zh_TW-big5	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
BIG5	zh_TW-big5	ISO2022–CN	zh_TW-iso2022–CN-EXT
BIG5	zh_TW-big5	UTF-8	UTF-8
BIG5+HKSCS	zh_HK.big5hk	UTF-8	UTF-8
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	BIG5	zh_TW-big5
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	UTF-8	UTF-8
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	ISO2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	ISO2022-CN-EXT	zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	UTF-8	UTF-8
ISO2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
ISO2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7	UTF-8	UTF-8
ISO2022-CN	zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT	BIG5	zh_TW-big5
ISO2022-CN-EXT	zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
UTF-8	UTF-8	BIG5	zh_TW-big5
UTF-8	UTF-8	BIG5+HKSCS	zh_HK.big5hk
UTF-8	UTF-8	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
UTF-8	UTF-8	ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7