Chapter 1 Starting the Simplified Chinese Solaris Software

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment must be specially set up for using Simplified Chinese text facilities. This chapter describes the steps required to set up an environment for running the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment provides the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window environment. CDE is a fully internationalized environment. The Simplified Chinese Solaris product includes the following locales:

• C--ASCII English environment.

• zh--Simplified Chinese environment in extended UNIX code (EUC).

• zh.GBK--Simplified Chinese environment in GBK, an extension of GB2312-80 (that is Guo Biao Kuo in Chinese PinYin, which supports all CJK characters that are in Unicode 2.0).

• zh_CN.GB18030-- Simplified Chinese environment in GB18030-2000 (The new GB 18030-2000 standard, which will obsolete the GBK, supports CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and Yi, Mongolian, Tibetan and Uigur minority scripts in Unicode 3.0).

• zh_CN.EUC--Symbolic link to zh locale.

• zh_CN.GBK--Symbolic link to zh.GBK locale.

• zh.UTF-8--Simplified Chinese environment in Unicode 3.1.

• zh_CN.UTF-8--Symbolic link to zh.UTF-8.

Applications Defaults Files

The Simplified Chinese CDE includes the following directories for applications defaults, including one for system-wide defaults and two specific to locale features:

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/C directory stores system wide application defaults. These values are for the C locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh.GBK directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh.UTF-8 directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.

• The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_CN.GB18030 directory stores application defaults that are specific to that locale.