Installing additional locales in Solaris
If you need to add support to additional locales on an already installed Solaris system, then you have to do the following:
SOLARIS 11
1. Determine the locale name you want to install. You can see the available locales here
2. Install legacy locales support (Optional)
By default, Solaris 11 supports UTF-8 locales installation, if you need to add other type of locales (like ISO8859-1), you should do the following:
# pkg install pkg:/system/locale/extra
3. Install the locale
// To install all the spanish locales # pkg change-facet facet.locale.es=True // To install only the french locale corresponding to Canada # pkg change-facet facet.locale.fr_CA=True
SOLARIS 10
1. List all locales available:
# localeadm -l
Look for the short name of the locale in the output generated by the previous command (the short name is between parenthesis, for example, to look for South America):
Checking for South America region (sam) (c_solaris packages) |..| No packages found.
2. Install using localeadm:
# localeadm -a sam -d /cdrom/cdrom0/s0
-d <package_location> specifies the location of the locale packages, in this example is in the Solaris Installation DVD
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