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DECwindows Motif Supplemental Guide for Simplified Chinese Support

3. Locales

3.1. Supported Locales

DECwindows Motif supports different Chinese locales for different countries and areas. These include People's Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong. Table 3-1 shows the valid Simplified Chinese locales.

Table 3-1. Simplified Chinese Locales
Codeset Locale
DEC Hanzi zh_CN
zh_CN.dechanzi
zh_HK.dechanzi
GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030

Note

zh_CN is an alias for zh_CN.dechanzi.

You can select the locale through the Language Menu of Session Manager. If you are using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), you can select the locale using the language menu on the CDE login screen.

The applicable locales are shown in Table 3-2.

Table 3-2. Chinese Language Names
Locale Language Name
zh_CN Chinese China
zh_CN.dechanzi Chinese China (DEC Hanzi)
zh_CN.GB18030 Chinese China (GB18030)
zh_HK.dechanzi Chinese Hong Kong (DEC Hanzi)