Localization and internationalization

• You can generate a Euro symbol in a character window by using the following keyboard sequences.

  For a UK or Irish keyboard the keystroke sequence is <Alt><Gr>4.

  For other European keyboards, the keystroke sequence is <Alt><Gr>e.

  For a US keyboard the keystroke sequence is <Alt><Gr>5. You can also run mapchan(1M) and enter the Euro symbol using the compose sequence <Ctrl> T e =.

• The Latin1 locales which were provided in SCO UnixWare 2.1 in the IBM codepages 437, 850, 865, 646 and 863 are preserved for backward compatibility. They will be retired in the next release of UnixWare and are not supported in this release.

• Currently, only the console is set up correctly in multiuser mode. In single-user mode and for virtual terminals other than vt00, the console is not configured correctly for entering and displaying non-ASCII characters. The root password can therefore only contain ASCII characters. If a user's password contains non-ASCII characters, they will not be able to log in on virtual terminals other than vt00. If the console is in multibyte mode, any multibyte character will not be displayed correctly.

  Once logged in in single-user mode, the root user needs to do the following:

  1. Determine and export the current keyboard settings, by entering:
     
     eval `defadm keyboard KEYBOARD`
     export KEYBOARD

  2. Enter:
     
     mapkey /usr/lib/keyboard/$KEYBOARD

  3. Run stty(1) with the istrip option to stop the high bit being stripped.

  4. Determine and export the current TERM setting, by entering:
     
     eval `defadm coterm TERM`
     export TERM

     For 8-bit locales, the value is TERM=AT386-ie. For EUC or UTF-8 locales, the value is TERM=AT386-mb.

     This step is necessary before running any kind of command which is screen-oriented; for example, vi or scoadmin.

  Once logged in on a terminal other than vt00, the user needs to run /etc/mapchan:

  1. Run:
     
     /sbin/loadfont

     Determine and export the current keyboard settings, by entering:
     
     eval `defadm keyboard MAPCHAN`
     export MAPCHAN

  2. Enter:
     
     mapchan -f $MAPCHAN

• The International Settings Manager should not be used to administer the settings on a remote system and should only be run as a foreground task.

CDE and X11

• SCO provides the standard X fonts as provided by the OpenGroup. They include fonts for ISO8859-1, Japanese and Korean codesets. Users whose locales are in other codesets will want to download fonts in these codesets from the web.

  These locales are:

  Chinese	Croat	Czech	Greek
  Hungarian	Polish	Romanian	Russian
  Slovak	Slovenian	Turkish	Ukrainian

Japanese localization issues

• Neither dtterm nor xterm(X1) correctly handles multibyte characters. Do not use them if you are in a multibyte locale such as Japanese.

• Japanese buttons do not display completely in a dtterm or xterm.

• The input method for Japanese using SJXM is not fully functional in a dtterm or xterm.

• dtmail does not support the Japanese mail standard ISO-2022-JP.