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Partiallocales are the enablers of the locales. With partiallocales installed on the system, users can input, display, print text, andrun applications on the target locales, while the OS/GUI messages in the Oracle Solaris operating system areEnglish. All partial locale packages are available on the Oracle Solaris DVD.Japanese and Asian partial locales are packaged according to the language.Partial locales are packaged according to the geographic region.

Full locale packages include translations of software messages,online help files, optional fonts, and language-specific features. Full localepackages provide the full set of language features for many languages. Alllocales based on the following languages are full locales:

Duringthe Oracle Solaris installation process, you are prompted to choose whichgeographic regions' support you require. The locale support that is availableafter the installation is completed depends on the choices made at this stage.Note that the English locale ("C") is installed in any case.

You can configure additional locales by using the Locale administratortool. Using the localeadm(1M) tool,you can display information about locale packages that are installed on thesystem or that reside on a particular device or directory. You can add andremove locales on the current system on a per-region basis. For example, youcan add all locales in the Eastern European region to the current system.

The locale administrator now enables you to automatically add and removelocale packages on a per-region basis on the machine, once the system is installed.Because of this capability, you need not work with individual packages, andthus errors are reduced.

The locale administrator is a supplement to the locale selection logicin the Oracle Solaris installer. The installer is still considered as theprimary application for the correct installation of Oracle Solaris locales.

eucJP [eucJP signifies the Japanese EUC code set. Specification of ja_JP.eucJP locale conforms to UI_OSF Japanese Environment Implementation AgreementVersion 1.1 and ja locale conforms to the traditional specificationfrom the past Solaris releases. ]

Dead keys are included in some specific keyboard layouts whereit is necessary to generate characters composed by two or more letters andsymbols. For example, in the French Keyboard Layout, characteregrave ( ) can be generated by typing dead_grave ( ` ) and ( e ).

Keyboards with different layouts for specific regionsare supported for SPARC and Intel Architecture (IA) platforms. The Oracle Solaris operating system supportsthe regional keyboards listed in the following table.

For regions with keyboard layouts that conform to the internationalstandardsuch as China, use the keyboard layout support provided for U.S.A. to inputthe locale's characters. The underlying keyboard mappings are identical. Somecountries, like Japan, Turkey, and Switzerland, have multiple keyboards, becausemultiple languages are being used, or because multiple keyboard layouts exist.

You can change keyboard layouts on a Oracle Solaris system byusing the DIP switch settings under most Sun Type 4, 5 and 5c keyboards. Alist of keyboard type, names and corresponding layout IDs that can be usedfor the DIP switch settings is in the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file.

You cannotchange the layout of Type 6 keyboards because the back of the keyboard hasno DIP switch. Some Type 5 and 5c keyboards, for example, U.S.A., U.S.A./UNIX,and Japanese keyboards have jumpers instead of DIP switches. Other than the xmodmap utilityor the kbd -s command, the SPARC platform does not offerutilities or tools that you can use to switch keyboards.

Unlike Type 4 keyboards, Type 5 and 5c keyboards have only fiveDIP switches. For the Type 5 and 5c keyboards, disregard the first binarydigit. For the Czech Type 5c keyboard, for example, the correct DIP switchsettings are Up Down Up Down Up, using only the last five digits from 10101.

On Intel Architecture systems,a keyboard is selected during the kdmconfig(1M) part of the installation.To change this setting after installation, exit your GUI desktop environmentto the command-line mode. As superuser, type kdmconfig torun the program. Follow the instructions to get the desired keyboard layout.

The setxkbmap allows switching the keyboard layoutsimultaneously when using the Xorg server. This command maps the keyboard.It uses the different command line options. For more information, see setxkbmap man pages.

The software enables users in Russia, Canada, Estonia, and Poland to modifythe standard U.S. keyboard layouts to meet individual language needs. Currently,no hardware is available for the additional keyboard types. To take advantageof this new keyboard software, follow the steps in the procedures in thissection.

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