Chapter 1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 International Languages


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 supports installation of multiple languages and changing of languages based on your requirements.
The following languages are supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5:
  • East Asian Languages - Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
  • European Languages - English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese Brazilian, and Russian,
  • Indic Languages - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, 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 1.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 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
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