HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

New and Changed Internationalization Features
Corrected Character Mappings to iconv(1) and iconv(3C)
Chapter 15280
Corrected Character Mappings to iconv(1)
and iconv(3C)
This release contains defect fixes for incorrect character mappings. The
corrections concern the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean characters of HP-UX.
Corrected character converter mappings allow for improved
interoperability when sending or receiving converted character data
to/from Unicode-aware systems.
Correction for Simplified Chinese
A patch corrects an incorrect character mapping that occurs when
converting between hp15CN and Unicode (UCS2)/UTF-8 for Simplified
Chinese.
Specifically, the Simplified Chinese character “Double Vertical Line”
mapped incorrectly when converting between hp15CN and UCS2/UTF-8.
This character was being mapped to the “Parallel To” character, which is
a different character.
The following table summarizes the change applied to iconv tables:
The hp15CN=ucs2 and ucs2=hp15CN iconv converter tables are
affected. These tables are shared by both UCS2 and UTF-8 conversions.
hp15CN incorrect
UCS2
correct UCS2 Character
Name
0xA1CE - 0x2225 Parallel To
0xA1AC 0x2225 0x2016 DoubleVertical
Line