New Internationalization and Localization Features

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.

• PCL support in mp printing filter.

• 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).

• Thai ISO8859–11 locale (th_TH.ISO8859–11).

• Hindi script support in Unicode locales.

• Hindi UTF-8 locale (hi_IN.UTF-8).

• ISCII iconv module to support conversion between ISCII and UTF-8 encodings.

• Collation locales for Asian Solaris.

• New zh_CN.GB18030 locale to support the new GB18030–2000 standard.

• HKSCS iconv modules.

• 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.