HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Internationalization
Simplified Chinese Input Methods
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Simplified Chinese Input Methods
System level support is provided in HP-UX 11i v2 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.
Summary of Change
In order to support input for characters defined by the GB18030 standard, a new
Chinese input method, Intelligent ABC, has been added to HP-UX. Two obsolete
Simplified Chinese input methods have been removed.
Since 2001 HP-UX has supported the China mandatory National Standard GB18030,
but did not have a modern S-Chinese input method for the input of GB18030 characters,
until the addition of Intelligent ABC.
The Intelligent ABC Chinese input method is a very powerful and popular input method
in China. It is widely used in MS Windows, IBM AIX, Apple Mac OS, and Linux.
The Intelligent ABC input method supports the full GB18030 character set and has been
certified by the Chinese standards agency CITS.
The input method is based on Pinyin. It is easy to learn and supports stroke input, word
input, and user-defined words.
The Intelligent ABC input method will support zh_CN.hp15CN, zh_CN.utf8 and
zh_CN.gb18030, the three Simplified Chinese locales.
Due to low customer usage, the T-C and T-C Rapid input methods will be removed from
HP-UX 11i v2.
Impact
Intelligent ABC is now available in HP-UX 11i v2 to support characters defined by the
GB18030 standard.
T-C and T-C Rapid input methods have been obsoleted and removed.
Compatibility
No compatibility issues
Performance
No performance issue.
Documentation
The change will be documented in the Simplified Chinese System Environment manual.