Sun [tm] Global Application Developer Corner

a collection of information and resources to help developers globalize
their applications. Resource material, sample code, testing tools, and
useful links provide information for developers to learn more about
software globalization. New and useful resources are added on a
quarterly basis.

Questions answered by the Global Webmaster

A recent Q & A:

How do I install Cyrillic fonts on Solaris? What packages are required?
Once installed, how do I access them?

Globalwebmaster said:

Cyrillic fonts in Solaris 8 are in the following packages:

- SUNWkoi8f for KOI8-R fonts
- SUNWi5rf, SUNWi5rf for ISO8859-5 Cyrillic fonts
- SUNW1251f for ANSI-1251/windows-1251 Cyrillic fonts

These packages can be added using the pkgadd command. The packages can
be found on CD 1 of 2 (/cdrom/..../Solaris_8/Product) If you have
installed any of Russian locales (that is ru_RU.ISO8859-1,
ru_RU.KOI8-R, or ru_RU.ANSI1251), then the fonts are already on your
system.  If you have installed any of Unicode locales, you will have at
least SUNWi5rf.  To use the fonts, you can login to one of the above
locales or set your font paths in ~/.OWfontpath.

Other Q & A topics:

1. Displaying multibyte characters
2. Japanese Solaris
3. Displaying Asian characters in utf-8 encoded pages
4. Serving content from a bilingual site
5. Thai support in Java
6. Using setlocale() for Arabic
7. setlocale() and XDrawImage
8. Resizing Java Applications
9. Multibyte Swing UIs
10. Ensuring Arabic text displays left to right 

Other resources on the Sun GADC Web page:

- I18n C Reference
- Java I18n Tutorial 
- MBE Downloads
- Keyboard Layouts 

http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc