HP-UX 11i December 2002 Release Notes

New and Changed Internationalization Features
Asian System Environment (ASE)
Chapter 16
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❏ HPDPS common printer model directory
For HPDPS, the common printer model directories LIPS3.asx, LIPS4.asx and
PS.asx are provided for future new printer support. The user can copy these
sample printer model directories to a directory under /var/opt/pd/lib/model
with an appropriate name and customize it to be suited for the printer being
configured.
❏ Mainframe code set conversion
The Mainframe code set conversions are provided to convert code sets between
Mainframe code sets Hitachi KEIS, NEC JIPS, Fujitsu JEF, and IBM EBCDIC
with existing code sets SJIS, eucJP, and ucs2. These code conversions are used
from iconv (1) and iconv (3C).
The following code sets are supported:
— Hitachi KEIS
— keis7k: KEIS78 (Hitachi MF code set based on JIS C6226-1978) +
EBCDIK
— keis8k: KEIS83 (Hitachi MF code set based on JIS X0208-1983) +
EBCDIK
— keis7c: KEIS78 (Hitachi MF code set based on JIS C6226-1978) +
EBCDIC
— keis8c: KEIS83 (Hitachi MF code set based on JIS X0208-1983) +
EBCDIC
— NEC JIPS
— jipsj: JIPS (NEC Mainframe code set) JIS
— jipsec: JIPS (NEC Mainframe code set) EBCDIC
— jipsek: JIPS (NEC Mainframe code set) EBCDIK
a. By installing optional Japanese Font DIMM on these printers, you can print
Japanese text with TrueType fonts. To use Japanese TrueType fonts, you have
to configure a printer with PCL5.asian model file for the LP Spooler, or with
2BPCL5.asx printer model for HPDPS. To see whether your printer has
Japanese TrueType Font installed, follow these steps:
Press
Menu on the control panel of the printer until “INFORMATION MENU”
appears.
Press
Item until “PRINT PCL FONT LIST” appears.
Press
Select to print the font list.
If your printer has Japanese TrueType font, you will see “MS Mincho” and “MS
Gothic” in the printed list.
b. Printing text files on expanded A3 (called “A3-Nobi” in Japan) paper is not
supported.
c. There are restrictions of page length setting on ESC/P mode. For detail, see
manual of the printer and online document
/usr/share/doc/PRINTER-JPN-S[E].