HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes

New and Changed Internationalization Features
Asian System Environment (ASE)
Chapter 17
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• SSE
❏ Unicode
Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale zh_CN.utf8 is supported. On this locale, you can
input, display and print UTF-8 characters. There is support for characters
defined in standards ISO 646 (1991) and GB 2312 (1980). UDC (User Defined
Characters or GAIJI) and VDC (Vender Defined Characters) are not supported.
For details, see the document /usr/share/doc/ASX-UTF8
❏ USB (Universal Serial Bus) Simplified Chinese 104 Keyboard
The USB Simplified Chinese 104 Keyboard is supported for inputting Simplified
Chinese characters by the input method XSIM.
❏ X Print Server
SSE supports printing via the X Print Server to PCL printers.
• TSE
❏ Unicode
Traditional Chinese UTF-8 locales zh_TW.utf8 and zh_HK.utf8 are supported.
On these locales, you can input, display and print UTF-8 characters. There is
support for characters defined in standards ISO 646 (1991), CNS 11643 (1992)
plane 1, 2, 3 and 4, except for some characters which are not supported by
Unicode 2.0. UDC (User Defined Characters or GAIJI) and VDC (Vender Defined
Characters) are not supported. For details, see the document
/usr/share/doc/ASX-UTF8.
❏ USB (Universal Serial Bus) Traditional Chinese 104 Keyboard
USB Traditional Chinese 104 Keyboard is supported for inputting Traditional
Chinese characters by the input method XTIM.
❏ X Print Server
TSE supports printing via the X Print Server to PCL printers.
❏ HongKong big5 Support (new)
Locale support is provided with the big5 codeset for HongKong.
HP provides support for the HongKong big5 locale, zh_HK.big5. HongKong big5
locale is similar to Traditional Chinese big5 locale. The difference between these
two locales are in monetary and date/time properties which reflect local cultural
conventions.
CDE has been enhanced to support this new locale by providing the required
app-defaults files to CDE applications.
Impact
Applications must elect to enable big5 support by setting the LANG and/or LC_*
environment variables to the HongKong big5 locale.
The size requirement for locale source and binaries is 1.7 MB
Applications using HongKong big5 locales should see the same performance as of
Traditional Chinese big5.