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Release 7.1 new features

Localization and internationalization


Euro support with UTF-8 (Unicode)
SCO adds support for the Euro via improved Unicode UTF-8 support.

UTF-8 features (Unicode)
Release 7.1 contains support for the new Euro currency symbol. It is based on UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format 8), an implementation of the ISO 10646 Unicode standard. It is the only standard that currently defines the Euro and that can display all characters in all locales. UTF-8 is supported by all UNIX vendors, is the standard for HTML, and is the proposed IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard for internationalizing ftp.

SCO's Euro support provides:

Release 7.1 Euro support does not yet include:

Any application that is multibyte clean and uses the standard system interfaces will be able to enter and display the Euro symbol. To use the Euro, you need only set one of the supported UTF-8 locales in the form LANG=xx_YY.UTF8.


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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004