HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

New and Changed Internationalization Features
Corrected Character Mappings to iconv(1) and iconv(3C)
Chapter 15280
No compatibility problems are anticipated. However, if compatibility
concerns arise with regard to persistent data stored either in Unicode
(UCS2) or UTF-8 on an HP-UX system, it is possible to generate a simple
conversion script to search for each occurrence of an incorrect value in
either UCS2 or UTF-8 and convert it to the correct value, based on the
following mapping:
Correction for Traditional Chinese
A patch corrects several incorrect character mappings that occur when
converting between Big-5/EUC and Unicode (UCS2)/UTF-8 for
Traditional Chinese.
In the case of Big-5 to/from UCS2/UTF-8, the “Ideographic Space”
character was absent in the Unicode conversion table mapping:
The following table summarizes the changes applied for conversions
between eucTW and UCS2:
Old UCS2 UCS2 Old UTF-8 UTF-8 Char
Name
0x2225 0x2016 0xe288a5 0xe28096 Double
Vertical
Line
big5 incorrect
UCS2
correct UCS2 Char Name
0xA140 - 0x3000 Ideographic
Space
eucTW incorrect
UCS2
correct
UCS2
Character Name
0xa1a6 0x30fb 0x2022 Bullet
0xa1b7 0x2014 0x2013 EN Dash
0xa1b9 0x2013 0x2014 EM Dash
0xa1b6 0xfe31 0xff5c Full-width Vertical Line