HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Internationalization
TrueType Fonts for Asian Languages
Chapter 9
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TrueType Fonts for Asian Languages
TrueType is a digital font technology consisting of TrueType fonts and the rasterizer. A
TrueType font is a data file containing glyphs, the shape/outline of the characters. In
addition to the shape/outline of the characters, it contains information such as character
to glyph mapping tables, hinting properties, and other information needed to generate
the bitmap images for the characters. The rasterizer is a program that reads the font file
to generate the bitmap images for display and printer devices.
Summary of Change
The HP-UX 11i v1.6 release provides TrueType fonts for HP-UX supported Asian
languages/locales including Japanese, Korean and Chinese (both Simplified and
Traditional).
Details of Change
Providing TrueType fonts support on HP-UX enables X Windows System based, Java
based, and Internet based applications to render language-based text correctly. The
fonts can be used to download the glyphs to the printer for printing language-based text.
The TrueType fonts are scalable. This enables the user(s) to scale the font glyphs to the
desired size.
The following table shows the list of Asian TrueType fonts:
To make use of the TrueType fonts new mapping tables, tables that map local font
indexing to Unicode font indexing have been added.
In addition to these new fonts and mapping tables, CDE has provided enhancements to
the config file used by the X Font Server to locate the fonts installed on the system. This
enables the applications to get the glyph/character patterns automatically from the X
Font Server.
Table 9-1 Asian TrueType Fonts
Language Typefaces/Family Names
Japanese HGMinchoL
HGGothicB
Korean HYBatang
HYDotum
HYGulim
HYGungsuh
Chinese (Simplified) ZYCJKHei
ZYCJKSun
Chinese (Traditional) ARMingtiL
ARMingtiLHK