The Solaris 9 operating environment now includes support for 162 locale environments that cover 39 languages. These environments are provided on the Solaris 9 DVD, the Solaris 9 Software CDs, and the Solaris 9 Languages CD. The following section provides information on language support features.
For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide.
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Improved Data Interoperability Data interoperability with non-Solaris environments has been improved in the Solaris 9 release. Additions include new iconv utilities for data conversion between UTF-8 and the following native encodings: HKSCS, GB18030, ISO 8859-11, and Hindi. Additionally, Japanese language support has been expanded through iconv modules. These modules convert between Solaris Japanese locale codesets and Japanese mainframe codesets from Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC. For further information on language support in the Solaris 9 release, see the International Language Environments Guide. |
New TrueType Fonts The new TrueType fonts provide a common appearance between the codesets and offer support for the same typefaces across the codesets. The TrueType fonts are common to all European locales. Each Asian locale has its own TrueType fonts file. For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide. |
Expanded Unicode Support The Solaris 9 release offers broader support for Unicode. Additions include new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium-Walloon. For further information about Unicode support in the Solaris 9 release, see the International Language Environments Guide. |
Print Filter Enhancement – the mp Program The mp program accepts international text files from various Solaris locales. The program produces output for the specified locale. Because the complex text layout (CTL) is supported in the mp program, the output contains proper text layout, such as bidirectional text rendering and shaping. Depending on the mp system font configuration for each locale, the PostScript output file can contain glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts. For more information, see “Print Filter Enhancement With” in International Language Environments Guide. |
New iconv Modules iconv modules enable conversion between native encoded data and Unicode. The following new iconv modules have been added to support new character sets:
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Enhanced Conversion of Dtpad File Open/Save Codeset Enhancements include the addition of an "encoding" option to the File Open/Save dialog box. This option supports file encoding changes with the iconv utility. This option enables users to open or save files in various encodings, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. See the iconv(3C) man page. |
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New European and Middle Eastern Keyboard Support The Solaris 9 release has added Sun I/O keyboard support for TurkeyQ, TurkeyF, and Arabic. Also, support is added for the Sun Ray USB keyboard for TurkeyQ, TurkeyF, Belgian, and Arabic. For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide. |
New Unicode (UTF-8) Locales for Europe and the Middle East For the Solaris 8 10/00 release, Russian, Polish, and two new locales for Catalan were added to the European and Middle Eastern locales. For the Solaris 8 4/01 release, two additional languages, Turkish UTF-8 Codeset and Russian UTF-8 Codeset, were added. In the Solaris 9 release, European and Middle Eastern language support also includes the addition of UTF-8 locales for Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium-Walloon. The locale names are as follows:
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Euro Default Currency Support The following locales have changed from their national currency unit (NCU) to the euro currency glyph:
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