HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Asian System Environment (ASE)
ASE Changes [11i v1.6]
Chapter 4
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ASE Changes [11i v1.6]
This release of HP-UX introduces several new changes and enhancements to the Asian System Environment.
This section presents a summary of these new features.
Changes Common to all ASEs
The following items apply to all of the ASEs.
True Type Fonts for Asian Languages
TrueType is a digital font technology consisting of TrueType fonts and the rasterizer. A TrueType font is a
data file containing glyphs, the shape/outline of the characters. In addition to the shape and outline of the
characters, it contains information such as character to glyph mapping tables, hinting properties, and other
information needed to generate the bitmap image of characters. The rasterizer is a program that reads the
font file to generate the bitmap images for display and printer devices.
The following items are related to this change:
• This release provides TrueType fonts for HP-UX supported Asian languages/locales, including Japanese,
Korean, and both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Table 4-5 illustrates the supported
TrueType fonts.
• To make use of the TrueType fonts, new mapping tables, tables that map local font indexing to Unicode
font indexing, have been added. In addition to these fonts and mapping tables, CDE has provided
enhancements to the config file used by the X font server to locate the fonts installed on the system. This
enables the applications to get the glyph/character patterns automatically from the X Font server.
Table 4-5 Asian TrueType Fonts
Language
Typefaces/
Family Names
Installed Directory
Japanese
HGMinchoL
HGGothicB
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/japanese.st/typefaces
Korean
HYBatang
HYDotum
HYGulim
HYGungsuh
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/korean.st/typefaces
Simplified
Chinese
ZYCJKHei
ZYCJKSun
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/chinese_s.st/typefaces
Traditional
Chinese
ARMingtiL
ARMingtiLHK
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/chinese_t.st/typefaces