Traditional Chinese Solaris System Administrator's Guide

Chapter 1 Starting the Traditional Chinese Solaris Software

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

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

C -- ASCII English environment.
zh_TW -- Traditional Chinese environment in extended Unix Code (EUC) that supports CNS 11643-1992 standard.
zh_TW.BIG5 -- Traditional Chinese environment in Big5 code.
zh_HK.BIG5HK -- Traditional Chinese environment in Big5-HKSCS code that supports the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS), which is a supplementary character set of the Big-5 and ISO 10646 coding schemes.
zh_HK.UTF-8 -- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) environment in Unicode 3.1.
zh_TW.EUC -- Symbolic links to zh_TW locale.
zh_TW.UTF-8 -- Traditional Chinese environment in Unicode 3.1.

Applications Defaults Files

The Traditional Chinese CDE includes three directories for applications defaults. One is for system-wide defaults, and two are 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_TW directory stores application defaults that are specific to the zh_TW locale.
The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_TW.BIG5 directory stores application default values specific to the zh_TW.BIG5 locale.
The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_TW.UTF-8 directory stores application default values specific to the zh_TW.UTF-8 locale.
The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_HK.BIG5HK directory stores application default values specific to the zh_HK.BIG5HK locale.
The /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh_HK.UTF-8 directory stores application default values specific to the zh_HK.UTF-8 locale.