Chapter 7. Internationalization

7.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 International Languages
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 supports the installation of multiple languages and the changing of languages based on your requirements.

East Asian Languages - Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
European Languages - English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

The following table lists the fonts and input methods provided for various major languages.

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Language	Default Font (Font Package)	Input Methods
English	dejavu-sans-fonts
French	dejavu-sans-fonts
German	dejavu-sans-fonts
Italian	dejavu-sans-fonts
Russian	dejavu-sans-fonts
Spanish	dejavu-sans-fonts
Portuguese	dejavu-sans-fonts
Simplified Chinese	google-noto-sans-cjk-ttc-fonts, google-noto-serif-cjk-ttc-fonts	ibus-libpinyin, libpinyin
Traditional Chinese	google-noto-sans-cjk-ttc-fonts, google-noto-serif-cjk-ttc-fonts	ibus-libzhuyin, libzhuyin
Japanese	google-noto-sans-cjk-ttc-fonts, google-noto-serif-cjk-ttc-fonts	ibus-kkc, libkkc
Korean	google-noto-sans-cjk-ttc-fonts, google-noto-serif-cjk-ttc-fonts	ibus-hangul, libhangu

RHEL 8 introduces the following changes to internationalization compared to RHEL 7:

Support for the Unicode 11 computing industry standard has been added.
Internationalization is distributed in multiple packages, which allows for smaller footprint installations.
For more information, see glibc localization for RHEL is distributed in multiple packages.
The glibc package updates for multiple locales are now synchronized with the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR).