HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

Internationalization
Euro - ISO 10646/Unicode Support
Chapter 16
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Euro - ISO 10646/Unicode Support
new at 11i
original release
HP-UX 11i provides system level support for the Unicode 2.1/ISO-10646 character set.
HP's support for Unicode provides a basis of enabling heterogeneous interoperability for
all geographic areas.
ISO-10646 is an industry standard for defining a single encoding which uniquely
encodes all the characters of the modern world. Unicode 2.1 is the companion
specification to ISO-10646. Unicode specification at revision 2.1 includes the Euro
symbol at 0X20AC code point.
Euro support to input, store, retrieve, display and print the Euro symbol has been added
for this release. In addition to the base functionalities, HP-UX 11i is providing the
following new functionalities:
• Dual currency support using @euro modifier.
• UTF-8 (Universal Transformation Format - 8 Bit) performance tuning.
• Euro display and processing capabilities for Asian UTF-8 locales.
• Additional converter tables.
Specific enhancements are provided to locales, localedef, libc, Xlib and iconv
converter tables to achieve those new functionalities.
A subset of existing European locales has been modified to support dual currency to meet
euro standard monetary formatting.
The following table gives the list of euro locales being supplied which support dual
currency:
The following table gives the list of locale sources being supplied which include dual
currency support:
Table 16-10 Euro Locales with Dual Currency
Locale Language/Country
de_DE.utf8 German (Germany)
es_ES.utf8 Spanish (Spain)
fr_FR.utf8 French (France)
it_IT.utf8 Italian (Italy)
sv_SE.utf8 Swedish (Sweden)
Table 16-11 Locales with Dual Currency
Locale Language/Country
da_DK.utf8 Danish (Denmark)
de_DE.utf8 German (Germany)
el_GR.utf8 Greek (Greece)