HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Internationalization
Japan Vendor Council (JVC) iconv Converters
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Japan Vendor Council (JVC) iconv Converters
New iconv converters are provided to allow for greater inter operability of data sharing
within Japanese computing environments.
Summary of Change
New Japanese iconv conversion tables are provided which conform to the Open Group
Japanese Vendor Council (TOG/JVC) CDE/Motif Technical working group
recommendations in ensuring inter operability of ISO 10646/Unicode/JIS-0221 within
Japanese computing environments.
NOTE JIS-0221 is the Japanese national standard equivalent to ISO-10646:1993 and Unicode
2.1.
The TOG/JVC has formalized three possible converter mappings for several characters.
These mappings are:
• JIS-0221 based on a strict JIS-0201 standard interpretation
• JIS-0221 Extended which allows for greater co-existence in current ASCII-based (i.e.
UNIX) environments
• JIS-0221 based on Microsoft’s Japanese mappings
Iconv converter tables are provided. These tables convert between HP’s EUC and
Shift-JIS (SJIS) characters to those specified by the strict JIS-0201 interpretation as
well as the Microsoft Unicode and UTF-8 mappings. The JIS-0221 Extended
conversion mappings are already supported within HP-UX.
Details of Change
Eight new iconv converter tables are provided to support the alternate mappings in
round-trip conversions between EUC and Shift-JIS (SJIS) to/from Unicode and UTF-8.
List of new conversions:
• eucJP0201 <-> ucs2 JIS-0201 interpretation
• eucJPMS <-> ucs2 Microsoft interpretation
• sjis0201 <-> ucs2 JIS-0201 interpretation
• sjisMS <-> ucs2 Microsoft interpretation