Solaris Globalization Presentations

Show me all Solaris material on: Select --Locales --Input Methods --Fonts --Languages, Scripts & Charsets

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IUC30: Unicode Transition Planning in Solaris.  (pdf)

This technical presentation and demonstration outlines the latest Unicode Transition Planning for Solaris at Sun.(November 2006).

IUC29: File Systems, Unicode and Normalization.  (pdf)

This technical presentation discusses the issues such as why Unicode has to be the choice of the character set for the file systems, how the traditional non-Unicode codesets should be supported, the role of Unicode normalizations, what would be the performance implication, how to deal with possible failure cases, compatibility and inter-operability with other file systems and protocols. (March 2006)

IUC21: Unicode Vs the Rest. Getting the Encoding Balance Right. A Solaris Locale Perspective.  (pdf)

When to use Unicode on Solaris, and when to use another standard. (May 2002)

IUC21: Solaris Unicode Locales and Their Common Features  (pdf)

Unicode local coverage, features, and behavior defined for all Solaris Unicode locales, and how the definition has been realized. (May 2002)

IUC16: Unicode Support on Solaris

[ tarred html ] Comprehensive presentation of Solaris support for Unicode. (Mar 2000)

IUC14: Universal Multiscript Layout Engine for Complex Text Layout Scripts  (pdf)

Description of a single, universal layout engine that is usable for all Complex Text Layout (CTL) languages. (Mar 1999)

IUC12: Unicode Locale Support in Solaris  (pdf)

Support for Unicode locales in Solaris 2.7 (Apr 1998)

IUC10: Case Study of two Multiscript Locales in Solaris  (pdf)

Comparison of the design and implementation of UTF-* locales for US English and Korean. (Mar 1997)