HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Encoding Characters

Euro Support

Chapter 2

Data Conversion (iconv) for the Greek Euro

The following Greek iconv converters have been updated to support the four new characters added to

ISO-88597 (see Table 2-9 in the Euro-enabled Greek Locales section) in conversions with UTF-8 and Unicode:

iso87 <-> ucs2

iso87 <-> utf8

The following iconv converters are now available to support data conversions between Greek EBCDIC

(code page 875) and UTF-8/Unicode:

greee <-> ucs2

greee <-> utf8

ISO-88597 and Greek EBCDIC converters are enhanced to support the Euro and are aligned to match the

expected mappings as defined by IBM for code page 875. The following converter table has been modified to

align with the expected mappings:

greee <-> iso87

Table 2-10 shows the modified code mapping changes made in converting from ISO-88597 to Greek EBCDIC/

Code Page 875 (iso87=greee).

Table 2-10 Modified Code Mapping Changes From ISO-88597

ISO-88597 Code Page 875 (Incorrect) Code Page 875 (Corrected)

0x27 0xd0 0x7d

0x40 0xff 0x7c

0x5c 0xff 0xe0

0x7b 0xff 0xc0

0x7c 0xff 0x6a

0x7d 0xff 0xd0

0x7e 0xff 0xa1

0xa0 0xff 0x74

0xa1 0x79 0xce

0xa2 0xd0 0xde

0xa3 0x7b 0xb0

0xa4 0xff 0xfc

0xa6 0xff 0xdf

0xa7 0x7c 0xeb

0xa8 0xa1 0x70

0xa9 0x83 0xfb

0xab 0x4c 0xee

0xac 0xff 0xef

0xad 0x60 0xca