More and More people are learning Chinese nowadays and one of the most popular and used latin transcript is Pinyin. As Chinese is a tone language, tones are written above syllables using  different "marks" :

1. First tone: " ¯ "  (bāo)
2. Second tone: " ´ "  (báo)
3. Third tone: " ˘ "  (băo)
4. Fourth tone: " ` "  (bào)

  So how to write pinyin with all those tones marks on OpenSolaris or Solaris ? Actually almost all of them it's quite easy, well for some you might get in troubles, but Sun is working on it and hopefully full support will be available soon.

There will be another OpenSolaris conference in Szczecin, Poland. According to the announcement, this is the first Polish OS.o community conference. The conference will be held in October 24 - 25th. A program has already been posted to the official pages http://konferencja.opensolaris.com.pl/agenda.

Our team is willing to introduce a translation process of OpenSolaris together with an experimental version of Community Translation Interface (CTI) for OpenSolaris. CTI is available at http://cti.sunvirtuallab.com. This interface enables a translation of different SW parts of OpenSolaris (e.g. Solaris ON messages, installer, OS.o Package GUI Manager, etc) as well as documentation.