ISO What font to Install in Solaris Exp.

tschima · 03-27-2008, 10:04 PM

Hi All,

I've wondered what ISO-8859 and all the other choices like posix would mean. I looked up the ISO numbers on Wikipedia once, but still have no clue. If I'm in America, read and write English which one would I want and why? And I remember there are two selections/questions in that part of the installer script, what difference would it make to select the posix as opposed to the other selections?

Is one of those ISO character sets more universal? And if I wanted to view Japanese or Korean web sites in their correct characters with Firefox, would I have to install language support for those languages? Thanks.

Terry

jlliagre · 03-29-2008, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tschima

I've wondered what ISO-8859 and all the other choices like posix would mean. I looked up the ISO numbers on Wikipedia once, but still have no clue. If I'm in America, read and write English which one would I want and why?

Any of them will work.

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And I remember there are two selections/questions in that part of the installer script, what difference would it make to select the posix as opposed to the other selections?

Posix means an English Locale and a character set strictly limited to what regular English uses.

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Is one of those ISO character sets more universal?

No. ISO-8859-01 and ISO-8859-15 are designed for most western countries.
On the other hand, UTF encodings are universal.

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And if I wanted to view Japanese or Korean web sites in their correct characters with Firefox, would I have to install language support for those languages?

Install en_US.UTF-8 and you'll be set.

tschima · 03-30-2008, 12:34 AM

Hi,

Thanks that's very helpful. UTF-8 it is.

Terry