HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Internationalization
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS)
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Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS)
System level support is provided for support of the HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary
Character Set) extension to the Big5 encoding for Hong Kong.
HKSCS is a collection of 4,702 characters defined by the Hong Kong Special
Administration Region (HKSAR) government in September, 1999. These characters are
specific to the Hong Kong region and are intended to be a common set of characters in
use for computing requirements throughout Hong Kong.
Summary of Change
Systems level support has been provided to allow for the input, storage, retrieval,
display and printing of HKSCS characters. This support is based on the repertoire
specified in Unicode 2.1 and the ISO 10646-1:1993 standards.
HKSCS support has been provided in HP-UX 11i v1.6 via a new locale, iconv converters,
fonts, and updates to Xlib, CDE, input method, and printer model files.
Details of Change
A new locale has been provided, zh_HK.hkbig5, to support the HKSCS specified
character repertoire within the Big5 encoding.
This locale is a renaming of the zh_HK.big5 locale, which was first offered in HP-UX 11i
v1.0. This rename was required since unexpected results in the display of HKSCS
characters could occur due to conflicts in the codeset name with the zh_TW.big5 locale.
New iconv converters have been provided to allow for conversion between HKSCS
big5-based encodings, Unicode, and UTF-8.
List of converter tables added:
• hkbig5 <-> ucs2
• hkbig5 <-> utf8
X11R6 Xlib has been enhanced to provide support for the zh_HK.hkbi5 locale.
Five new bitmap fonts are supplied to display all the characters defined in HKSCS in
CDE and in the X Window System. Printer model files have also been enhanced to print
all the HKSCS characters on HP legacy line printers, Laserjet printers supporting
PCL5, and third party printers using ESC/P emulation.