Supported Locales
The following tables list all the locales supported by the Solaris 9 environment. The locale names have been updated in keeping with international naming standards.
Table 3-1 Asia
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
hi_IN.UTF-8 | English | India | UTF-81 | Hindi (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
ja | Japanese | Japan | eucJP2 | Japanese (EUC) |
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| JIS X 0201-1976 |
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| JIS X 0208-1990 |
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| JIS X 0212-1990 |
ja_JP.eucJP | Japanese | Japan | eucJP | Japanese (EUC) |
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| JIS X 0201-1976 |
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| JIS X 0208-1990 |
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| JIS X 0212-1990 |
ja_JP.PCK | Japanese | Japan | PCK3 | Japanese (PC kanji) |
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| JIS X 0201-1976 |
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| JIS X 0208-1990 |
ja_JP.UTF-8 | Japanese | Japan | UTF-8 | Japanese (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
ko_KR.EUC | Korean | Korea | 1001 | Korean (EUC) KS X 1001 |
ko_KR.UTF-8 | Korean | Korea | UTF-8 | Korean (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
th_TH.UTF-8 | English | Thailand | UTF-8 | Thai (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
th_TH.TIS620 | English | Thailand | TIS620.2533 | Thai TIS620.2533 |
zh_CN.EUC | Simplified Chinese | PRC | gb23124 | Simplified Chinese (EUC) GB2312-1980 |
zh_CN.GBK | Simplified Chinese | PRC | GBK 5 | Simplified Chinese (GBK) |
zh_CN.GB18030 | Simplified Chinese | PRC | GB18030-2000 |
Simplified Chinese (GB18030-2000) GB18030-2000 |
zh_CN.UTF-8 | Simplified Chinese | PRC | UTF-8 | Simplified Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
zh_HK.BIG5HK | Traditional Chinese | Hong Kong | Big5+HKSCS | Traditional Chinese (BIG5+HKSCS) |
zh_HK.UTF-8 | Traditional Chinese | Hong Kong | UTF-8 | Traditional Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
zh_TW.EUC | Traditional Chinese | Taiwan | cns11643 | Traditional Chinese (EUC) CNS 11643-1992 |
zh_TW.BIG5 | Traditional Chinese | Taiwan | BIG5 | Traditional Chinese (BIG5) |
zh_TW.UTF-8 | Traditional Chinese | Taiwan | UTF-8 | Traditional Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1 |
1 UTF-8 is the UTF-8 defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 and also Unicode 3.1.
2 eucJP signifies the Japanese EUC codeset. Specification of ja_JP.eucJP locale conforms to UI_OSF Japanese Environment Implementation Agreement Version 1.1 and ja locale conforms to the traditional specification from the past Solaris releases.
3 PCK is also known as Shift_JIS (SJIS).
4 gb2312 signifies Simplified Chinese EUC codeset, which contains GB 1988-80 and GB 2312-80.
5 GBK signifies GB extensions. This includes all GB 2312-80 characters and all Unified Han characters of ISO/IEC 10646-1, as well as Japanese Hiragana and Katakana characters. It also includes many characters of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character sets and of ISO/IEC 10646-1
Table 3-2 Australasia
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
en_AU.ISO8859-1 | English | Australia | ISO8859-1 | English (Australia) |
en_NZ.ISO8859-1 | English | New Zealand | ISO8859-1 | English (New Zealand) |
Table 3-3 Central America
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
es_CR.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Costa Rica | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Costa Rica) |
es_GT.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Guatemala | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Guatemala) |
es_NI.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Nicaragua | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Nicaragua) |
es_PA.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Panama | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Panama) |
es_SV.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | El Salvador | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (El Salvador) |
Table 3-4 Central Europe
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 | English | Czech Republic | ISO8859-2 | Czech (Czech Republic) |
de_AT.ISO8859-1 | German | Austria | ISO8859-1 | German (Austria) |
de_AT.ISO8859-15 | German | Austria | ISO8859-15 | German (Austria, ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
de_CH.ISO8859-1 | German | Switzerland | ISO8859-1 | German (Switzerland) |
de_DE.UTF-8 | German | Germany | UTF-8 | German (Germany, Unicode 3.1) |
de_DE.ISO8859-1 | German | Germany | ISO8859-1 | German (Germany) |
de_DE.ISO8859-15 | German | Germany | ISO8859-15 | German (Germany, ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
fr_CH.ISO8859-1 | French | Switzerland | ISO8859-1 | French (Switzerland) |
hu_HU.ISO8859-2 | English | Hungary | ISO8859-2 | Hungarian (Hungary) |
pl_PL.ISO8859-2 | English | Poland | ISO8859-2 | Polish (Poland) |
pl_PL.UTF-8 | English | Poland | UTF-8 | Polish (Poland, Unicode 3.1) |
sk_SK.ISO8859-2 | English | Slovakia | ISO8859-2 | Slovak (Slovakia) |
Table 3-5 Eastern Europe
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bg_BG.ISO8859-5 | English | Bulgaria | ISO8859-5 | Bulgarian (Bulgaria) |
et_EE.ISO8859-15 | English | Estonia | ISO8859-15 | Estonian (Estonia) |
hr_HR.ISO8859-2 | English | Croatia | ISO8859-2 | Croatian (Croatia) |
lt_LT.ISO8859-13 | English | Lithuania | ISO8859-13 | Lithuanian (Lithuania) |
lv_LV.ISO8859-13 | English | Latvia | ISO8859-13 | Latvian (Latvia) |
mk_MK.ISO8859-5 | English | Macedonia | ISO8859-5 | Macedonian (Macedonia) |
ro_RO.ISO8859-2 | English | Romania | ISO8859-2 | Romanian (Romania) |
ru_RU.KOI8-R | English | Russia | KOI8-R | Russian (Russia, KOI8-R) |
ru_RU.ANSI1251 | English | Russia | ansi-1251 | Russian (Russia, ANSI 1251) |
ru_RU.ISO8859-5 | English | Russia | ISO8859-5 | Russian (Russia) |
ru_RU.UTF-8 | English | Russia | UTF-8 | Russian (Russia, Unicode 3.1) |
sh_BA.ISO8859-2@bosnia | English | Bosnia | ISO8859-2 | Bosnian (Bosnia) |
sl_SI.ISO8859-2 | English | Slovenia | ISO8859-2 | Slovenian (Slovenia) |
sq_AL.ISO8859-2 | English | Albania | ISO8859-2 | Albanian (Albania) |
sr_YU.ISO8859-5 | English | Serbia | ISO8859-5 | Serbian (Serbia) |
tr_TR.ISO8859-9 | English | Turkey | ISO8859-9 | Turkish (Turkey) |
tr_TR.UTF-8 | English | Turkey | UTF-8 | Turkish (Turkey, Unicode 3.1) |
Table 3-6 Middle East
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
He | English | Israel | ISO8859-8 | Hebrew (Israel) |
Table 3-7 North Africa
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ar_EG.UTF-8 | English | Egypt | UTF-8 | Arabic (Egypt) |
Ar | English | Egypt | ISO8859-6 | Arabic (Egypt) |
Table 3-8 North America
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
en_CA.ISO8859-1 | English | Canada | ISO8859-1 | English (Canada) |
en_US.ISO8859-1 | English | USA | ISO8859-1 | English (U.S.A.) |
en_US.ISO8859-15 | English | USA | ISO8859-15 | English (U.S.A., ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
en_US.UTF-8 | English | USA | UTF-8 | English (U.S.A., Unicode 3.1) |
fr_CA.ISO8859-1 | French | Canada | ISO8859-1 | French (Canada) |
es_MX.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Mexico | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Mexico) |
Table 3-9 Northern Europe
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
da_DK.ISO8859-1 | English | Denmark | ISO8859-1 | Danish (Denmark) |
da_DK.ISO8859-15 | English | Denmark | ISO8859-15 | Danish (Denmark, ISO8859-15-Euro) |
fi_FI.ISO8859-1 | English | Finland | ISO8859-1 | Finnish, Unicode 3.1) |
fi_FI.ISO8859-15 | English | Finland | ISO8859-15 | Finnish (Finland, ISO8859-15-Euro) |
fi_FI.UTF-8 | English | Finland | UTF-8 | Finnish (Finland) |
is_IS.ISO8859-1 | English | Iceland | ISO8859-1 | Icelandic (Iceland) |
no_NO.ISO8859-1@bokmal | English | Norway | ISO8859-1 | Norwegian (Norway-Bokmal) |
no_NO.ISO8859-1@nyorsk | English | Norway | ISO8859-1 | Norwegian (Norway-Nynorsk) |
sv_SE.ISO8859-1 | Swedish | Sweden | ISO8859-1 | Swedish (Sweden) |
sv_SE.ISO8859-15 | Swedish | Sweden | ISO8859-15 | Swedish (Sweden, ISO8859-15-Euro) |
sv_SE.UTF-8 | Swedish | Sweden | UTF-8 | Swedish (Sweden, Unicode 3.1) |
Table 3-10 South America
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
es_AR.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Argentina | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Argentina) |
es_BO.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Bolivia | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Bolivia) |
es_CL.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Chile | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Chile) |
es_CO.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Colombia | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Colombia) |
es_EC.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Ecuador | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Ecuador) |
es_PE.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Peru | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Peru) |
es_PY.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Paraguay | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Paraguay) |
es_UY.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Uruguay | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Uruguay) |
es_VE.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Venezuela | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Venezuela) |
pt_BR.ISO8859-1 | English | Brazil | ISO8859-1 | Portuguese (Brazil) |
pt_BR.UTF-8 | English | Brazil | UTF-8 | Portuguese (Brazil, Unicode 3.1) |
Table 3-11 South Europe
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ca_ES.ISO8859-1 | English | Spain | ISO8859-1 | Catalan (Spain) |
ca_ES.ISO8859-15 | English | Spain | ISO8859-15 | Catalan (Spain, ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
el_GR.ISO8859-7 | English | Greece | ISO8859-7 | Greek (Greece) |
es_ES.ISO8859-1 | Spanish | Spain | ISO8859-1 | Spanish (Spain) |
es_ES.ISO8859-15 | Spanish | Spain | ISO8859-15 | Spanish (Spain, ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
es_ES.UTF-8 | Spanish | Spain | UTF-8 | Spanish (Spain, Unicode 3.1) |
it_IT.ISO8859-1 | Italian | Italy | ISO8859-1 | Italian (Italy) |
it_IT.ISO8859-15 | Italian | Italy | ISO8859-15 | Italian (Italy, ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
it_IT.UTF-8 | Italian | Italy | UTF-8 | Italian (Italy, Unicode 3.1) |
pt_PT.ISO8859-1 | English | Portugal | ISO8859-1 | Portuguese (Portugal) |
pt_PT.ISO8859-15 | English | Portugal | ISO8859-15 | Portuguese (Portugal, ISO8859-15 - Euro) |
Table 3-12 Western Europe
Locale | User Interface | Territory | Codeset | Language Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
en_GB.ISO8859-1 | English | Great Britain | ISO8859-1 | English (Great Britain) |
en_IE.ISO8859-1 | English | Ireland | ISO8859-1 | English (Ireland) |
fr_BE.ISO8859-1 | French | Belgium-Walloon | ISO8859-1 | French (Belgium-Walloon, Unicode 3.1) |
fr_BE.UTF-8 | French | Belgium-Walloon | UTF-8 | French (Belgium-Walloon, Unicode 3.1) |
fr_FR.ISO8859-1 | French | France | ISO8859-1 | French (France) |
fr_FR.UTF-8 | French | France | UTF-8 | French (France, Unicode 3.1) |
nl_BE.ISO8859-1 | English | Belgium-Flemish | ISO8859-1 | Dutch (Belgium-Flemish) |
nl_NL.ISO8859-1 | English | Netherlands | ISO8859-1 | Dutch (Netherlands) |