The chapters in this guide are organized as follows:
Chapter 1, Solaris Internationalization Overview describes the new internationalization and localization features in Solaris 9, including the introduction of the euro () in several countries.
Chapter 2, General Internationalization Features describes support for Codeset Independence, CSI, and the APIs in libc for the Solaris 9 product.
Chapter 3, Localization in the Solaris 9 Environment describes the contents of the Solaris 9 localized product, including localizing the multilingual Solaris product, and new keyboard support, including nineteen new keyboards.
Chapter 4, Supported Asian Locales describes the Asian supported locales, input systems, and character support.
Chapter 5, Overview of UTF-8 Locale Support covers the en_US.UTF-8 locales and the internationalization features incorporated into this release. These include the Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and Thai input methods, as well as those for the Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese input modes.
Chapter 6, Complex Text Layout describes Complex Text Layout (CTL) extensions that enable Motif APIs to support writing systems that require complex transformations between logical and physical text representations, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.
Chapter 7, Print Filter Enhancement With mp explains printing support under the Solaris 9 operating environment, with specific information for European and Asian printing, and the mp(1) print filter enhancement.
Appendix A, iconv Code Conversions contains lists of tables of available iconv conversions.
Appendix B, Partial Locale Package List on Software CDs contains a table of the partial localization package names on the OS CD.
Appendix C, Full Locale Package List on Languages CD contains tables representing the language packages on the language CD. There are tables for Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Shared.