HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Internationalization
GB18030 Standard
Chapter 9
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GB18030 Standard
System level support is provided in HP-UX 11i v1.6 for the GB18030 character set.
GB18030 is officially referred to as “Chinese National Standard GB18030-2000:
Information Technology - Chinese Ideograms Coded Character Set for Information
Interchange - Extension for the Basic Set”. It is a government mandated conformance
requirement for all products sold in China, effective as of September 1, 2001.
GB18030 is a superset Chinese character set standard, including some 30,000 characters
that have been defined in either the GB2312-80 standard, the GBK specification or in
Unicode’s Unihan Extension A.
Summary of Change
System level support has been provided to allow for the input, storage, retrieval, display
and printing of the set of characters defined in the GB18030 character set standard.
GB18030 support has been provided in HP-UX 11i v1.6 via new locales, iconv converters
and fonts and modifications to Xlib, CDE, input methods, printer model files, LDTERM,
and the eucset command.
Two new bitmap fonts have been provided to display all the characters defined in
GB18030 in CDE and the X Window System. The Simplified Chinese input method,
xsim, has been enhanced to generate all GB18030 characters. The printer model file is
also enhanced to print all the GB18030 characters on PCL5-capable LaserJet printers
even if the printer does not contain any simplified Chinese fonts.
Details of Change
A new locale, zh_CN.gb18030, has been provided to enable support of GB18030.
New iconv converter tables have been provided to support data conversion between
GB18030, Unicode and UTF-8.
List of converter tables:
• gb18030 <-> ucs2
• gb18030 <-> utf8
Commands:
The eucset command has been enhanced to set the code widths required for GB18030
that are used by the Streams PTY line discipline module (LDTERM) and dtterm.
PCL5.nloo is a printer model file that works with the lp subsystem to print text files
containing Asian multi-byte characters on a LaserJet (PCL5 emulation) which does NOT
have any multi-byte font DIMMs installed. PCL5.nloo is enhanced to print text file
containing 2-byte and 4-byte characters whose patterns are defined in GB18030, and
Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi and Uigur characters when zh_CN.gb18030 is designated to one
of print options.