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• Convert data files from onde codeset to another (Section 1.10)
• Display, edit, and print text in languages other than English
(Section 1.11)
This chapter discusses these topics as they apply to particular languages
or groups of languages. For complete information about using the
internationalization features of applications that run in the Common
Desktop Environment (CDE), see Chapter 3 and the Tru64 UNIX
CDE
Companion manual.
1.2 Configuring International Software
This chapter describes how to set locales, keyboard mappings, and other
aspects of internationalization support using system utilities and commands.
However, if you are a system manager or administrator with superuser
privileges, you can use the Configure International Software utility to
configure Worldwide Language Support on your system.
The Configure International Software utility is menu-oriented function
available from the SysMan Menu under the Software option. As superuser, a
system manager or administrator can use Configure International Software
to perform the following tasks:
• Configure access to Worldwide Language Support tools and libraries for
individual accounts or system-wide.
• Configure Asian terminal driver support and merge that configuration
into the system configuration file (
/usr/sys/conf/). Using this task,
the system administrator can do the following:
– Activate Asian codeset options, including traditional Chinese Big-5,
Telecode for Taiwan, simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese
conversion, UTF-8, and Thai language support.
– Add UNIX Terminal Extension (UTX) support options to the Asian
terminal driver. The UTX support options include on-demand font
loading (ODL), Katakana conversion, and Software Phrase Input
Method (SIM).
– Define the Pseudo Terminal Driver protocol.
– Establish dynamic or static linking of the Asian terminal driver to
the kernel.
– Specify the number of UTX pseudodevices that will be created on
the system.
– Rebuild the kernel.
• Configure Wnn, the character-cell input method for Japanese.
1–2 Working in a Multilanguage Environment