HP-UX 11i June 2004 Release Notes

Internationalization
Asian System Environment (ASE)
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NOTE By installing optional Font DIMM on these printers, you can print text with
TrueType fonts. To use 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.
❏ HPDPS common printer model directory
For HPDPS, the common printer model directories PCL5.asx, 2BPCL5.asx and
ESCP.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.
•JSE
❏ ATOK X for HP-UX Preview Edition
The new version of ATOK is now supported. As a Kana-Kanji conversion feature,
the ATOK12 engine is incorporated enabling you to achieve a comfortable and
effective Japanese input environment. As this release of ATOK X is a Preview
Edition, some of the customization tools are not yet available. In the next
release, a full featured ATOK X for HP-UX will be provided.
❏ Unicode
Japanese UTF-8 locale ja_JP.utf8 is supported. Using this locale, you can input,
display and print UTF-8 characters. It supports characters defined in standards
JIS X 0201 (1976), JIS X 0208 (1990), and JIS X 0212 (1990). 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) Japanese 109 Keyboard support
This allows for inputting Japanese characters by Japanese input methods.
❏ NEC VDC symbols for display on X Window System
NEC special characters are included in Japanese fonts. NEC VDC has 83
characters which occupy following code areas:
JIS[Kuten]: 13/01 - 13/92
Shift-JIS: 0x8740 - 0x879C
Those characters can be shown on X Window System.
❏ New Ricoh TrueType font package
The new Ricoh TrueType font package “TrueTypeWorld ValueFontD2” is
supported. The supported fonts are Windows 3.1 version of WABUN (Japanese)
fonts.
❏ New printer model
New printer models are supported on both the LP Spooler and HPDPS. You can
print Japanese plain text file on the following printers by configuring the printer
using the specified model file on the LP Spooler or printer model on HPDPS: