HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Encoding Characters

Converting Between Encodings

Chapter 2

NOTE JIS X0221 is the Japanese national standard equivalent to ISO-10646:1993 and

Unicode 2.1.

These tables convert between HP’s EUC and Shift-JIS (SJIS) characters to those specified by the strict

JIS X0201 interpretation as well as the Microsoft Unicode and UTF-8 mappings. The JIS X0221

Extended conversion mappings are already supported within HP-UX. These new converters require

0.6 MB of additional space.

Table 2-26 shows eight new iconv converter tables that are provided to support the alternate mappings

in round-trip conversions between EUC and Shift-JIS (SJIS) to /from Unicode and UTF-8.

Table 2-27 illustrates the mapping variances between converter tables when converting between SJIS

and different interpretations of Unicode character mappings.

NOTE The JIS X0201 Extended (Unix) mappings are already available on HP-UX, referenced in

this table as SJIS.

Table 2-26 New iconv Converters

Conversion Interpretation

eucJP0201 <-> ucs2 JIS X0201

eucJPMS <-> ucs2 Microsoft

sjis0201 <-> ucs2 JIS X0201

sjisMS <-> ucs2 Microsoft

Table 2-27 Mapping Variances Between SJIS and Unicode Mappings

SJIS sjis0201 UCS2 mapping SJIS UCS2 mapping sjisMS UCS2 mapping

0x5C 0x00A5 0x005C 0x005C

0x7E 0x203E 0x007E 0x007E

0x8150 0xFFE3 0x203E 0xFFE3

0x815F 0x005C 0xFF3C 0xFF3C

0x818F 0xFFE5 0x00A5 0xFFE5

0x815C 0x2014 0x2014 0x2015

0x8160 0x301C 0x301C 0xFF5E

0x8161 0x2016 0x2016 0x2225

0x817C 0x2212 0x2212 0xFF0D

0x8191 0x00A2 0x00A2 0xFFE0

0x8192 0x00A3 0x00A3 0xFFE1

0x81CA 0x00AC 0x00AC 0xFFE2