HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

New and Changed Internationalization Features
Euro - ISO 10646/Unicode Support (new at 11i original release)
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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. Hewlett-Packard'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:
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)