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Solaris Operating System
Globalization Technical FAQ
Technical QuestionsQ: Which locales are provided with the Solaris 9 OS?
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The Solaris 9 OS provides extensive language support within a single, unified global product. Solaris 9 software includes support for 39 languages and 162 locales, including languages with complex text layout (CTL) writing scripts, such as Arabic, Thai, Hindi and Hebrew. Also included is enhanced support for the development of multilingual applications. For more information on specific locales supported in the various releases of Solaris, please go to: http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/
Q: How can I get access to specific locales?
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Locale support in Solaris 9 is distributed through CD-ROM or the new DVD format.
Q: Can I install Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European locales on the same Solaris system?
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Yes. All Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European locales are included on the base
CD with localized messages on a separate "Language" CD. These locales and messages are installed through the installation procedure. If a user selects the Solaris 9 DVD, all language support for both partial and full locales are included on the same disk.
Q: Which language features are new in the Solaris 9 OS?
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Solaris 9 software provides new features to address a growing global market:
Q: Which languages of the CDE desktop are provided for the Solaris 9 OS?
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The CDE desktop is now available in 12 languages for Solaris 9 software. The Language CD-ROM contains message translations for the entire CDE desktop suite in 9 core languages (French, Italian ,German, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean). In addition, users in Poland, Russia and Spain can have access to localized content of the core CDE applications in Russian, Polish and Catalan by accessing the Extra Value directory within the Solaris OS.
Q: Which languages of the Netscape browser are provided for Solaris 9 software?
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Netscape version 4.7 software is provided in 10 languages for the Solaris 9 OS, including English, French, Italian ,German, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Additionally, users will be able to download the Netscape 6.2.2 browser with localized user interface content in the core 10 languages listed above, as well as new language offerings for Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Polish.
Q: Which version of Unicode do you support in the Solaris 9 OS?
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All Solaris 9 Unicode locales now support the latest Unicode Standard, Version 3.1. Unicode Version 3.1 has now 94,140 characters, representing a significant increase in the number of supported characters compared to the previous version. Most of the new characters are from China and Japan for their Han ideographs.
Q: Which new Unicode (UTF-8) locales have been added to the Solaris 9 OS?
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Unicode support has been expanded in the Solaris 9 platform to include locales for
India, Hong Kong and Thailand as well as Turkey, Egypt, Finland, Poland, Spain,
Belgium and Brazil.
Q: Does the Solaris 9 OS comply with the new Chinese government standard called
GB18030?
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As of September 2001, the PRC government mandated a national coding standard, GB18030, which all software products sold in the People's Republic of China must support by law. Solaris software received the highest rating the government provides (A+) for its level of compliance to this new standard. The Solaris globalization architecture can now handle not only the more than 30,000 characters in Mandarin Chinese, but also minority languages such as Tibetan, Wei, Yi and Mongolian. Applications running on the Solaris platform can easily process files encoded in GB18030, because the Solaris OS has already provided the platform support. These files can also be exchanged with legacy data from other language standards through a process of transparent code conversion.
Q: Does Solaris 9 software offer support for the new Chinese standard mandated by the government of Hong Kong, called the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set?
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Yes. The new zh_HK.BIG5HK locale is provided to support the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) in order to facilitate electronic communication in Chinese between Hong Kong government departments and the public.
Q: As of January 1, 2002, the Euro has become the default currency for Europe.
How do you accommodate this requirement in the Solaris 9 OS?
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Most of the Western European locales have changed from their national
currency unit (NCU) to the euro currency. All European locales in the Solaris 9 OS now
provide support for the euro as the default currency selection.
Q: Are there any new features in the Solaris 9 OS to support users in the Middle East?
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Yes. There are new Unicode locales for Turkey and Egypt as well as new keyboard layouts for Turkish and Arabic languages.
Q: Are there any features in the Solaris 9 OS to support users in India?
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Beginning with Hindi, Solaris Unicode locales now provide Indian regional language support for the first time. The Devanagari script, upon which Hindi is based, is used by various languages in the Indian subcontinent and covers a large geographical region in South Asia. The Solaris software platform infrastructure now allows for the input, display and print of Hindi data with these locales.
Q: Which new features do you offer for printing in the Solaris 9 platform?
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Printing solutions for all locales are greatly improved with enhancements to the printing filter called "mp". The "mp" printing filter now supports various new options for users to print to low cost printers. The "mp" tool has been enhanced to support multi-byte and complex text layout . Users can print, for instance, Japanese text files to any non-Japanese PostScript or PCL printer, regardless of the current locale displayed on the desktop.
Q: Where can I find out more about Global application development on the Solaris 9 platform?
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The Sun Global Application Developer Corner (Sun GADC) is a collection of information and resources to help developers globalize their applications. Resource material, sample code, testing tools, and useful links provide information for developers to learn more about globalization. The GADC is an updated web version of the CD-ROM Global Application Developer Kit 1.0 (GADK). Go to: www.sun.com/globalization
Q: Are there other FAQ's available on Solaris globalization?
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For past frequently asked questions on Solaris locales, please go to:
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/
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