Solaris Operating Environment

The Solaris Operating Environment offers an internationalized framework which makes it easy for companies and individual users to work effectively in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural world.

What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment?

New Internationalization features are available in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment.

For Developers:

Announcing the availability of the Sun Global Application Developer Corner (GADC), a resource to help developers globalize their applications. Resource material, sample code, and useful links provide information for developers to learn more about globalization.

The Solaris I18N White Papers are for software developers interested in developing internationalized software in the Solaris Operating Environment. The four internationalization white papers are:

Asian-Language Support in the Solaris Operating Environment

Interested in adding support for languages such as Chinese to your applications? Click to find out more about Asian multibyte language support in the Solaris Operating Environment.

Complex Text Layout Language Support in the Solaris Operating Environment

Interested in adding support for languages such as Arabic and Thai to your applications? Click to find out more about complex text layout language support in the Solaris Operating Environment.

Euro Currency Support in the Solaris Operating

This paper outlines the technical implementation of support for the euro within the Solaris Operating Environment and provides guidance for developers who are tasked with the transition of application or information systems to support the euro currency standard.

Unicode Support in the Solaris Operating Environment

Find out more about the Solaris implementation of the Unicode character encoding standard (ISO/IEC 10646) for multilingual computing. Click to find out more.

Books

The following books are recommended for Internationalization:

• Solaris 2.4 Developer's Guide to Internationalization
• Solaris 2.5 Developer's Guide to Internationalization
• Solaris 2.6 Internationalization Guide for Developers
• Solaris 7 Internationalization Guide for Developers
• Solaris 8 International Language Environments Guide

• Lunde, Ken, CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing O'Reilly Online Catalog, 1st Edition December 1998, 1128 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-224-7.
• Luong, B., Tuoc V., Lok, James S. H. , Lok, S. H., and Driscoll, Kevin, Internationalization Developing Software for Global Markets John Wiley & Sons, 1995, 293 pages, ISBN: 0-471-07661-9.
• McFarland, Thomas, X Windows on the World: Developing Internationalized Software Readme.doc Discount Computer Books, Inc., ISBN: 0-13359-787-3.
• Nielsen, Jakob, Designing User Interfaces for International Use Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990, 230 pages, ISBN: 0-444-88428-9.
• Taylor, Dave, Global Software: Developing Applications for the International Market New York Springer-Verlag, 1992, 319 pages, ISBN: 0-38797706-6.
• Tuthill, Bill and Smallberg, David, Creating Worldwide Software: Solaris International Developer's Guide Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition July 1997, 382 pages, ISBN: 0-13-494493-3.
• Uren, Emmanuel, Howard, Robert, and Perinotti, Tiziana, Software Internationalization and Localization: An Introduction New York Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1993, 300 pages, ISBN: 0-44-201498-8.
• Open Group Internationalization Titles.
• Internationalisation Guide, Version 2: Open Group Guide July 1993, ISBN: 1-85912-002-4.
• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 The Unicode Consortium, January 2000, 1070 pages ISBN: 0-201-61633-5.