HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

New and Changed Internationalization Features
EURO (ISO 8859-15 Locales)
Chapter 15288
X Window Support
New functionality was added to Xlib to support input and display of the
Euro symbol. This was done by adding internal support for the
ISO8859-15 character set (as well as support of UTF8 on 11i). When an
Xlib application is started, Xlib internals determine if the locale is set to
an ISO8859-15 character set. If it is, Xlib will perform character lookups
using the eight new symbols present in the ISO8859-15 character set.
Currently, only applications linked with X11R6 (X Window version X11
Release 6) will support the ISO8859-15 character set. Older X11 versions
are not currently supported.
Libraries
The libc and xlib libraries support the Euro symbol.
Codeset Converters
New iconv tables exist to support conversion from/to ISO 8859-15 and
ISO 8859-1, ucs2, and utf8. The additional disk space in HP-UX 11i is
6.42MB. No additional memory is required.
LaserJet Printers
An important aspect of the euro support is printing the new symbol on
LaserJet printers using existing standard lp(1) model files.
The ISO8859-15 font set is resident on the HP 4500 Color LaserJet
Printer, which contains the Euro symbol at position A4 (hexadecimal).
Your data file must contain this code to print the Euro symbol.
A new utility will be provided to download the fonts to the printer RAM.
These fonts will then reside in the printer’s RAM until the next power
cycle.
Use the lp option -ocs9N (or -oscs9N ) to select the ISO 8859-15
character set as the primary (or secondary) character set. For example:
lp -d printer_name -ocs9N -o other_ options print_filename
NOTE The case is significant. Be sure to use an upper case “N”.