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Chapter 2. Installing and supporting languages
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 supports installation of multiple languages and changing of languages based on your requirements. Please only install those languages that you will use as this will save you a significant amount of disk space.
The following languages are supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5:
- East Asian Languages - Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese and Korean.
- European Languages - French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.
- Indic Languages - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Tamil and Telugu.
The table below summarizes the currently supported languages, their locales, default fonts installed and packages required for some of the supported languages.
Table 2.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 International Languages
| Territory | Language | Locale | Fonts | Package Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | Simplified Chinese | zh_CN.UTF-8 | AR PL (ShanHeiSun and Zenkai) Uni | fonts-chinese, scim-pinyin, scim-tables |
| Japan | Japanese | ja_JP.UTF-8 | Sazanami (Gothic and Mincho) | fonts-japanese, scim-anthy |
| Korea | Hangul | ko_KR.UTF-8 | Baekmuk (Batang, Dotum, Gulim, Headline) | fonts-korean, scim-hangul |
| Taiwan | Traditional Chinese | zh_TW.UTF-8 | AR PL (ShanHeiSun and Zenkai) Uni | fonts-chinese, scim-chewing, scim-tables |
| Brazil | Portuguese | pt_BR.UTF-8 | standard latin fonts | |
| France | French | ft_FR.UTF-8 | standard latin fonts | |
| Germany | German | de_DE.UTF-8 | standard latin fonts | |
| Italy | Italy | it_IT.UTF-8 | standard latin fonts | |
| Russia | Russian | ru_RU.UTF-8 | KOI8-R, fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi, fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi and xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic | fonts-KO18-R, fonts-KO18-R-100 dpi,fonts-KO18-R-75dpi, xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic |
| Spain | Spanish | es_ES.UTF-8 | standard latin fonts | |
| India | Assamese | as_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Bengali | fonts-bengali, scim-m17n, m17n-db-assamese |
| Bengali | bn_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Bengali | fonts-bengali, scim-m17n, m17n-db-bengali | |
| Gujarati | gu_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Gujarati | fonts-gujarati, scim-m17n, m17n-db-gujarati | |
| Hindi | hi_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Hindi | fonts-hindi, scim-m17n, m17n-db-hindi | |
| Kannada | kn_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Kannada | fonts-kannada, scim-m17n, m17n-db-kannada | |
| Malayalam | ml_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Malayalam | fonts-malayalam, scim-m17n, m17n-db-malayalam | |
| Marathi | mr_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Hindi | fonts-hindi, scim-m17n, m17n-db-marathi | |
| Oriya | or_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Oriya | fonts-oriya, scim-m17n, m17n-db-oriya | |
| Punjabi | pa_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Punjabi | fonts-punjabi, scim-m17n, m17n-db-punjabi | |
| Tamil | ta_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Tamil | fonts-tamil, scim-m17n, m17n-db-tamil | |
| Telugu | te_IN.UTF-8 | Lohit Telugu | fonts-telugu, scim-m17n, m17n-db-telugu | |
| Sri Lanka | Sinhala | si_LK.UTF-8 | LKLUG | fonts-sinhala, scim-sinhala, scim-m17n, m17n-db-sinhala |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 uses the UTF-8 (8bit Unicode Transformation Format) encoding for supported locales. This allows you to create, edit and view documents written in different locales using UTF-8.
Note
Please note that applications such as KDE and Open Office may use additional files for internationalization.
2.1. Adding language support during installation
During your installation, the installation language you select becomes your default language after installation. The figure below illustrates the language selection window during installation. The selected language affects the default for:
These areas will be discussed later in this guide.
- user interface,
- documentation,
- fonts,
- date, time formats and locale information,
- input methods for Asian languages.
Figure 2.1. Select installation language
During installation you can also install support for multiple languages from the package selection window as illustrated below.
Figure 2.2. Package selection
