Installation guide

TABLE 2–1 Solaris 2.6 Features at a Glance (continued)
Feature Description
Unicode 2.0
Support
Two locales which are Unicode 2.0 and ISO 10646 compliant have been added. These
locales enable multiscript input and output and are the first locales provided in the Solaris
environment with this capability. These locales support the CDE environment only,
including the Motif and CDE libraries
Font
Administration
- Font Admin enables easy installation and usage of fonts for the X Window System. It
supports TrueType, Type0, Type1, and CID fonts for multibyte languages, and provides
comparative font preview capability. It is fully integrated into the CDE desktop.
- TrueType fonts are supported through X and Display PostScript
TM
. Font Admin allows for
easy installation and integration of third party fonts into the Solaris environment.
Asian Language
Enhancements
Solaris 2.6 software has been re-architected to the historical dependency on the Extended
UNIX Codeset (EUC). Additional codeset support and locales for popular Asian PC
encoding standards, ShiftJIS (PCK) in Japan, Big5 in PRC, and Johap in Korea are also
provided. These locales support the CDE environment only, including the Motif and CDE
libraries.
Solaris User
Registration
Users who register using Solaris electronic registration will receive information about new
Solaris offerings and support.
Standards
Year 2000
Compliance
The Solaris 2.6 operating environment is year 2000 ready. It uses unambiguous dates and
follows the X/Open guidelines where appropriate.
X/Open UNIX 95
(Spec 1170)
The previous release of the Solaris software was compliant with much of Spec 1170. The
Solaris 2.6 release now meets all the requirements.
X/Open XFN
CAE
Federated Naming Service (FNS) is now compliant with the X/Open XFN CAE definition.
POSIX 1003.1b POSIX real-time functionality is added. This includes full support for POSIX AIO (with the
exception of the −PRIORITIZED I/O option) and some new extensions to support 64-bit
files. (See “Large Files”.)
ISO 10646
The ISO 10646 standard defines Unicode 2.0, including UCS-2 and UTF-8 (the standard
UNIX implementation). All implementations specified in this standard are Unicode 2.0
compliant.
Robust Software Developer Environment
Large Files Large files are supported on UFS, NFS, and CacheFS
TM
file systems. The interfaces defined
by the Large File Summit are supported.
What’s New at a Glance 2-5