HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Asian System Environment (ASE)

ASE Changes [11i v1 and 11i v1.5]

Chapter 4

— For HPDPS, the common printer model directories PCL5.asx, 2BPCL5.asx and ESCP.asx are provided

for future new printer support. The user can copy these sample printer model directories to a

directory under /var/opt/pd/lib/model with an appropriate name and customize it to be suited for

the printer being configured. This feature is not available for 11i Version 1.5.

•JSE

— ATOK X for HP-UX Preview Edition [not applicable for 11i Version 1.5] is now supported. As a

Kana-Kanji conversion feature, the ATOK12 engine enables users to achieve a comfortable and

effective Japanese input environment. Since this release of ATOK X is a Preview Edition, some of the

customization tools are not yet available. In the next release, a full featured ATOK X for HP-UX is

provided.

— The Japanese UTF-8 locale ja_JP.utf8 is supported. Using this locale, users can input, display and

print UTF-8 characters. It supports characters defined in standards JIS X 0201 (1976), JIS X 0208

(1990), and JIS X 0212 (1990). UDCs (GAIJI) and VDCs (Vendor Defined Characters) are not

supported.

For details, see the document /usr/share/doc/ASX-UTF8.

— USB (Universal Serial Bus) Japanese 109 Keyboard support. This allows for the input of Japanese

characters by Japanese input methods.

— NEC VDC symbols are included for display on the X Window System

— JIS[Kuten]: 13/01–13/92

— Shift-JIS: 0x8740–0x879C

— The new Ricoh TrueType font package “TrueTypeWorld ValueFontD2” is supported. The supported

fonts are Windows 3.1 version of WABUN (Japanese) fonts.

— New printer models are supported on both the lp Spooler and HPDPS. Users can print Japanese

plain text files on the following printers by configuring the printer using the specified model file on

the lp Spooler or printer model on HPDPS.

Table 4-4 New Printer Models for JSE

Printer LP Spooler Model File

HPDPS Printer Model File [not

for 11i Version 1.5 and later]

HP LaserJet 5si

PCL5.nloo (PCL5.asian) PCL5.asx (2BPCL5.asx)

HP HITPCPDA ESCP ESCP.asx

HP HITHTS4A ESCP ESCP.asx

HP HITKD20A ESCP ESCP.asx

HP HITKD45A ESCP ESCP.asx

Canon LBP-850 LIPS4 LIPS4.asx

Canon LBP-930EX LIPS4 LIPS4.asx

Canon LBP-2030 LIPS4 LIPS4.asx

Canon LBP-2040 LIPS4 LIPS4.asx

Canon LBP-2160 LIPS4 LIPS4.asx

OKI Microline 9XXPSII

PS2.nlio PS2.asx