Localization and internationalization

Euro support with UTF-8 (Unicode)

SCO adds support for the Euro via improved Unicode UTF-8 support.

UTF-8 features (Unicode)

Release 7.1 contains support for the new Euro currency symbol. It is based on UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format 8), an implementation of the ISO 10646 Unicode standard. It is the only standard that currently defines the Euro and that can display all characters in all locales. UTF-8 is supported by all UNIX vendors, is the standard for HTML, and is the proposed IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard for internationalizing ftp.

SCO's Euro support provides:

• new locales, including:

  cs_CZ.UTF8	en_IE.UTF8	fr_LU.UTF8	no_NO.UTF8	sl_SI.UTF8
  da_DK.UTF8	en_US.UTF8	hr_HR.UTF8	pl_PL.UTF8	sv_FI.UTF8
  de_AT.UTF8	es_ES.UTF8	hu_HU.UTF8	pt_PT.UTF8	sv_SE.UTF8
  de_DE.UTF8	es_MX.UTF8	is_IS.UTF8	ro_RO.UTF8	tr_TR.UTF8
  el_GR.UTF8	fi_FI.UTF8	it_IT.UTF8	ru_RU.UTF8	uk_UA.UTF8
  en_CA.UTF8	fr_BE.UTF8	nl_BE.UTF8	se_FI.UTF8
  en_GB.UTF8	fr_FR.UTF8	nl_NL.UTF8	sk_SK.UTF8

• console display of Unicode:

  • extended screen driver and font server that understand UTF-8

  • updated pcfont(1M) command

  • one 8x16 font containing MES (Minimum European Subset of Unicode) characters

• keyboard entry of Unicode:

  • enhanced keyboard driver capable of generating multibyte characters

  • addition to Euro symbol to all keyboard files (30 keyboards)

  • updated mapchan(1M) and mapchan(4)

• printing of Unicode:

  • enhanced PostScript driver

  • PostScript font containing all MES characters

• conversion between UTF-8 and Microsoft encodings

Release 7.1 Euro support does not yet include:

• messages in languages other than English

• alphabets other than Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic

• right-to-left support for Semitic languages (Arabic and Hebrew)

• 8-bit support per ISO 8859-15

• Netscape support on UNIX systems

• support for X Server, Motif, and other graphical applications

Any application that is multibyte clean and uses the standard system interfaces will be able to enter and display the Euro symbol. To use the Euro, you need only set one of the supported UTF-8 locales in the form LANG=xx_YY.UTF8.