If you try to log in to the Arabic or Hebrew locales using the Solaris 9 12/02 (x86 Platform Edition) operating environment, dtlogin will crash, restart, and display the login prompt. The following error message is displayed.
The X server cannot be started on display :0... |
If you attempt to launch an application after setting the locale to ar or he at the command line, the application might crash with a core dump.
Workaround: To avoid this problem, apply patch 114034-01. This patch is available at http://sunsolve.sun.com.
In the en_US.UTF-8 locale, you cannot type the Euro character by simultaneously pressing the AltGraph and E keys.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.
Press and release the Compose key, then press and release the C key, then press and release the = key (Compose+C+=).
If your keyboard does not include the Compose key, then press the Control key while you press the Shift and T keys (Ctrl-Shift-T).
Press the Alt key while you press the 4 key (Alt-4).
To generate the diacritic character in Arabic locales, type the Arabic character, then Shift-U.
Sorting in the European UTF-8 locales does not work properly.
Workaround: Before you attempt to sort in a FIGGS UTF-8 locale, set the LC_COLLATE variable to the ISO–1 equivalent.
# echo $LC_COLLATE > es_ES.UTF-8 # LC_COLLATE=es_ES.IS08859-1 # export LC_COLLATE |
Then start sorting.