Solaris Locales FAQ (NEW)

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http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/faq/locale.html#8

New!Packages lists for partial and full locale support for Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 and 9.
What is a locale?
What locales are provided with Solaris Operating Environment?
How do I add a locale after installing the Base Product?
Where can I get specific locales?
What is the difference between a partial and a full locale?
How do I run a localized environment once it has been installed?
Can I use English to install Japanese Solaris Operating Environment?
Can I install Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European locales on the same Solaris system?
German Locales
Chinese Locales
Turkish Language Support
Customizing and Creating My Own Solaris Locales
How do I know what packages to add per locale?

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1. What is a locale?
A locale is a collection of files, data, and sometimes code, which contain the necessary information to adapt Solaris to a specific geographical market. It is essentially a "bundle", containing information such as the messages displayed to the user, interface component information, for example the size of the buttons; cultural information such as dates and currency formats, and fonts or other writing specific information. More.

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2. What locales are provided with Solaris?
Solaris supports a global set of languages that can be added or removed at any time. Globalization is enhanced through extensive support for 37 languages, 123 locales, and complex text formats for Arabic, Thai and Hebrew, along with support for the development of multilingual applications. More | Also | Summary of Solaris 8 Locales.

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3. How do I add a locale after installing the Base Product?
Adding locales to Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris 2.6.

Adding locales to Solaris 7.

Adding locales to Solaris 8. (The simplest method is probably using "Solaris Web Start".

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4. Where can I get specific locales?
There are no downloads for Solaris locales. For Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7:

You can get complete localized versions from the Sun Global Application Developer Kit 1.0. ( costs approx US $295 and it includes all locales supported for Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7). Part number for:

Sun Global Application Developer Kit 1.0 P/N#: GDKM9-100-T999. Visit Sun Store.
For Solaris 7 only see SunStore.

For Solaris 8, all locales are bundled with the base distribution. In earlier versions of Solaris, for example, the Japanese Solaris distribution was an entirely different distribution to, say English Solaris. That is the Japanese Solaris distribution had its own CD_ROMs.
Now however, when you buy Solaris 8, you receive several CD_ROMs:

The Solaris OS CD-ROMs (x2): contains the Solaris 8 Operating System plus all partial locales.
The Language CD-ROM: contains message translations for our 9 core languages (French, Italian ,German, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean), plus some locale specific utilities. More.

See

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5. What is the difference between a partial and a full locale?
A partial locale provides support for date/time format, monetary and numeric format, and collation sequence.
A partial locale also defines printable characters, uppercase and lowercase characters, and graphic characters.

A full locale provides the same information plus translated system messages.

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6. How do I run a localized environment once it has been installed?
If you're running OpenWindows, change the locale using the Properties tool from the Main Menu.
If you're running CDE, select a locale at login.
If you're running Gnome, select a locale at login.

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7. Can I use English to install the Japanese Solaris distribution?
Yes. The first window you see when installing Solaris enables you to choose the language you want to use for the installation. See Q3.

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8. Can I install Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European locales on the same Solaris system?
Yes.
From Solaris 8, all Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European locales are included on the base CD with localised messages on a separate "Language" CD. These locales and messages are installed through the installation procedure.

For step-by-step instructions on installing multiple locales and languages onto a system running the Solaris 2.6 operating environment, see http://sun.com/software/white-papers/wp-multilocale/ .

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9. I want to install a German locale. How many German locales are there? Are they full or partial locales?
There are 3 Germany German locales in Solaris 8 (there are also Austrian and Swiss German locales):
de_DE.ISO8859-1: Based on 8859-1 codeset (Latin script)
de_DE.ISO8859-15: Based on 8859-15 codeset (Latin script with Euro currency support)
de_DE.UTF-8: Based on Unicode standard (UTF-8 encoding). Support multiple scripts (Latin,Arabic,Hebrew,Chinese,Japanese,Korean)


Message translations are included on Langauges CD. So, if you didn't install Lang CD, then they are partial locales. However if installed with the Lang CD, they are full locales.

For more details on locales available in Solaris 8 Operating Environment see docs.sun.com

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10. I installed Chinese packages from languages cd. I then tried "setenv LANG zh_TW" but got an error - "Locale could not be set properly".
What am I doing wrong
The following Chinese packages are in Solaris 8 1of2 and should be installed, the languages CD doesn't contain locale enabling packages, but only translations and extra fonts, etc:

Locale   ON   CDE   OW   FONT   TrueType 64-bit ON 64-bit X11
zh
SUNWcleu
SUNWcdt
SUNWcxplt
SUNWcxmft  
SUNWcttf SUNWcleux















zh.GBK
SUNWgleu
SUNWgdt
SUNWgxplt
SUNWgxfnt
SUNWgttf SUNWgleux SUNWgxplx














zh.UTF-8
SUNWculeu
SUNWcudt
SUNWcuplt
SUNWcufnt

SUNWculex















zh_TW
SUNWhleu
SUNWhdt
SUNWhxplt
SUNWhxfnt
SUNWhttf SUNWhleux















zh_TW.BIG5
SUNW5leu
SUNW5dt
SUNW5xplt
SUNW5xmft
SUNW5ttf SUNW5leux SUNW5xplx














zh_TW.UTF-8
SUNWhuleu
SUNWhudt
SUNWhuplt
SUNWhufnt

SUNWhulex


Package list in text format.
Using Chinese as the installation language is not enough to install Chinese locales, users need select all of the locales they need from the GEO screen during the installation.
Only zh or zh_TW locale is installed by default when Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese is used as the installation langauge.

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11. What Turkish language support is available for Sun Solaris?
Solaris supports the Turkish language in that you can input, display, and print Turkish.
It also supports cultural elements like date/time formats, currency, sorting etc. Solaris does not provide Turkish translations for system messages and application text (e.g. GUI menus/buttons etc. Turkish support has been in Solaris since Solaris 2.6.