New Localized Features

The following sections describe the new features of the Traditional Chinese Solaris 9 operating environment, which include support for new locales, collation options, input methods, and iconv modules.

• New zh_HK.BIGF5HK and zh_HK.UTF-8 locales that support the HKSCS, the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set. HKSCS is a supplementary character set of the BIG5 and of the ISO 10646 coding schemes that contains the characters needed for Chinese computing in Hong Kong. The HKSCS characters are not contained in either the BIG5 or the ISO 10646 character sets.

• New collation locales that follow provide options such as stroke count, and radical, and phonetic collation for all of the Chinese characters supported in each locale.

  • zh_TW.EUC@zhuyin

  • zh_TW.BIG5@zhuyin

  • zh_TW.UTF-8@zhuyin

  • zh_TW.EUC@stroke

  • zh_TW.BIG5@stroke

  • zh_TW.UTF-8@stroke

  • zh_TW.EUC@radical

  • zh_TW.BIG5@radical

  • zh_TW.UTF-8@radical

  • zh_TW.EUC@pinyin

  • zh_TW.BIG5@pinyin

  • zh_TW.UTF-8@pinyin

  • zh_HK.BIG5HK@stroke

  • zh_HK.UTF-8@stroke

  • zh_HK.BIG5HK@radical

  • zh_HK.UTF-8@radical

• Lookup tables for the following character sets:

  • HKSCS

  • CNS11643

  • BIG5

  • Unicode

• New input methods for all the Chinese locales.

• New input method auxiliary window that provides a more friendly and extensible user interface for Traditional Chinese input.

• New iconv modules that support the Big5-HKSCS standard.