Adding Locale Packages to Solaris 7

These notes addresses the following topics:

• Using the l10npkgadd script
• Locale naming conventions
• BCP packages
• Impact of missing locale packages

Using the l10npkgadd script

Locales are added to Solaris packages by using the pkgadd command. To ease the process, you can use the l10npkgadd script, available at http://sun.com/developers/gadc/faq/l10npkgadd.csh

The l10npkgadd script will check and appropriately add the packages to your current system. The script will not install packages with a name that already exists on the system. The list of packages can be copied from the lists in the following sections and pasted to the command line of the script.

To use this script:

1. Copy the l10npkgadd.csh script to your system.
2. Make the script executable.
   (chmod 755 l10npkgadd.csh)
3. Change directory to the location where localization packages exist.
4. Become super-user.
5. Run the script with the package names.

Locale naming conventions

The Solaris[tm] locale naming follows this XPG convention:

• language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]

• language is a two letter code from ISO 639 (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm) and
• territory is a two letter code from ISO 3166.
• codeset and modifier are arbitrary names.

Refer to the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency web site for more information on ISO 3166:
http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/

BCP packages

If you're adding not only one or more of Japanese locales but also other full locales, it is possible to have a conflict between Japanese BCP packages and those in other locales you may choose to install. These are typically named SUNW?bcp and SUNW??bcp -- for example, SUNWcbcp and SUNWcwbcp for the Simplified Chinese locale. In that case, if you reboot your system, you will see continuous warning/error message at your console indicating conflicts. To fix this problem, simply remote login to your system, and remove all other locales' BCP packages but keep the Japanese BCP packages. Or, better, just do not install any other SUNW?bcp or SUNW??bcp except SUNWjbcp and SUNWjwbcp packages for Japanese locales.

This is applies to the SPARC platform. The x86 platform doesn't have any BCP packages.

Impact of missing packages

Depending on your CD/netimage medium, it is possible that one or more packages listed in a locale package list are not available on your medium. If this should occur usually it will not affect the essential enabling packages. There may only be a lose of certain translated messages which will not effect the overall locale-specific operations in your system.