Overview of Features

The Simplified Chinese Solaris™ 9 operating environment is the internationalization and Simplified Chinese localization of the Solaris 9 operating environment and the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window system.

The following sections provide information on the facilities you can use to input, display, and print multibyte simplified Chinese characters in the Solaris 9 operating environment.

• New Localized Features

• Language Support

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

• Printing Facilities

• Remote User Facilities

• Developer Facilities

New Localized Features

The new features of the Simplified Chinese Solaris 9 operating environment include support for new locales, collation options, input methods, and iconv modules.

• New zh_CN.GB18030 locale that is enhanced from zh_CN.GBK(zh.GBK) to support the new GB18030-2000 standard released by the Chinese government.

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

  • zh_CN.EUC@pinyin

  • zh_CN.GBK@pinyin

  • zh_CN.GB18030@pinyin

  • zh_CN.UTF-8@pinyin

  • zh_CN.EUC@stroke

  • zh_CN.GBK@stroke

  • zh_CN.GB18030@stroke

  • zh_CN.UTF-8@stroke

  • zh_CN.EUC@radical

  • zh_CN.GBK@radical

  • zh_CN.GB18030@radical

  • zh_CN.UTF-8@radical

• New input methods for all the Chinese locales

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

• New iconv modules that support the GB18030-2000 standard.

Language Support

The Solaris environment builds inherent internationalization features into every localized product. Localization facilities support the ANSI C recommendations for internationalization and localization that define the locale and related categories.

Locales

A locale contains the language with culturally specific information and conventions for a particular global region. Each process in the Solaris operating environment has the following set of locale attributes:

• Locale settings, which provide the locale and setlocale commands you use to list and set attributes before you start a process from the command line.

  For example, the Simplified Chinese locales and the English/ASCII locale both have a category that defines the display of time and date according to the cultural format, as well as the actual Simplified Chinese or English/ASCII characters for the time and date.

• Codesets, which support coding conventions for the GB2312 and the GB18030 character sets. These sets enable you to input, display, and print Simplified Chinese text in file names, system messages, and terminal (TTY), email, and data file content.

• htt input method server, which handles Simplified Chinese input for the Solaris operating environment. The htt server receives your keyboard input and converts it to Simplified Chinese characters that are used in Simplified Chinese applications.

Simplified Chinese Locales

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment provides simultaneous support for the locales in the following table. The locales look the same to the end user, but the internal character encoding is different.

Table 1-1 Simplied Chinese Locales