Chapter 12. Internationalization
Chapter 12. Internationalization 12.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 international languages 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. 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, libhangul 12.2. Notable changes to internationalization in RHEL 8 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 Using langpacks . A number of glibc locales have been synchronized with Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR).