HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

New and Changed Internationalization Features
Asian System Environment (ASE) (new)
Chapter 15296
❏ 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:
Table 15-12 New Printer Models for JSE
Printer LP Spooler
Model File
HPDPS
Printer
Model File
HP LaserJet 5si
a
PCL5.nloo
(PCL5.asian)
PCL5.asx
(2BPCL5.asx)
HP HITPCPDA ESCP ESCP.asx