Installation guide

Emails Saved As Portable Format
Modern mails are tagged with the MIME charset tag. The Email and Calendar application
accepts MIME charset tags. You do not need to perform any encoding conversion.
Plain Text Files
Plain text les do not have a charset tag. If the les are not in UTF-8 encoding, encoding
conversion is needed. For example, to convert a plain text le encoded in Traditional Chinese
big5 to UTF-8, execute the following command:
iconv -f big5 -t UTF-8 inputlename
> outputlename
You can also use the File System Examiner for the encoding conversion.
You can use the Text Editor to read and write character encoding text automatically or by
specifying an encoding explicitly when opening or saving a le.
To start Text Editor, click Launch, then choose Applications->Accessories->Text Editor.
File Names and Directory Names
If le names and directory names using multibyte characters are not in UTF-8 encoding,
encoding conversion is needed. You can use File System Examiner to convert le and directory
names and the contents of plain text les from legacy character encodings to UTF-8 encoding.
Refer to the online Help for File System Examiner for more information.
To start File Systems Examiner, click Launch, then choose Applications->Utilities->File System
Examiner.
When you access non-UTF-8 le or directory names on Microsoft Windows via SMB using File
Manager, you can access the non-UTF-8 le or directory names without encoding conversion.
Launching Legacy Locale Applications
For applications that are not ready to migrate to Unicode UTF-8, you can create a launcher on a
front panel to start the application in legacy locales. You can also launch the applications
directly from the command line. Perform the following steps to create a launcher for an
application.
1. Right-click on the panel where you want to place the launcher.
2. Choose Add to Panel->Launcher.
Localization Issues
Chapter 2 • Solaris Runtime Issues 83