HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Locales

Building Locales for HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i

Chapter 3

Building Locales for HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i

HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i systems can have up to three different flavors of the same locale:

• 32-bit

• 64-bit

• HP-UX 10.20 compatibility 32-bit

The following sections present build requirements, briefly describe each flavor, and give the locale building

procedure. The locale zh_CN.utf8 is used as an example.

Requirements

Compiler

Building locales on HP-UX requires a C compiler named “HP C/ANSI C Developer's Bundle for HP-UX”. Run

the swlist command to verify that this compiler installed. Normally, this package is NOT shipped with

HP-UX systems.

Source Files

All needed files are normally shipped with the system to the following paths:

charmaps /usr/lib/nls/loc/charmaps/utf8.cm

method files /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales/univ.utf8.m

locale source /usr/lib/nls/loc/src/zh_CN.utf8.src

Kernel Configuration (needed for UTF8 locales only)

Building Unicode/UTF8 locales requires that the following kernel parameters be increased from 67 MB to

100 MB:

•MAXDSIZ

•MAXTSIZ

•SHMMAX

The Three Locale Flavors

Using the build syntax shown, locales are built in the local directory. After a locale is built, copy it to the path

shown.

32-bit Locales

•Located at /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales.2/zh_CN.utf8

• Used by 32-bit HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i applications

• To build, run the following command on a 32-bit machine:

localedef -C '+ESlit' -Q -L -x -Pcnf utf8.cm -m univ.utf8.m -i \

zh_CN.utf8.src zh_CN.utf8 > zh_CN.out 2> zh_CN.err

64-bit Locales

• This flavor is found on 64-bit systems only.

•Located at /usr/lib/nls/loc/pa20_64/locales.2/zh_CN.utf8

• Used by 64-bit HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i applications.