HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Asian System Environment (ASE)

ASE Changes [11i v1.6]

Chapter 4

If the first two key inputs are from 81 to FE, and the following two key inputs are from 30 to 39,

XSIM WILL wait for another set of four key inputs, ranging from 81 to FE as the next two key

inputs, and 30 to 39 as yet another two key inputs to generate one 4-byte character immediately

after the eighth key is entered. XSIM beeps for any non-hexidecimal keys during four or eight key

inputs.

—PinYin

The PinYin input method supports generating GB18030 2-byte Chinese characters only. It does

not support 4-byte characters.

— Other input methods, like Row-Column and 5-Stroke do not generate GB18030 characters except for

those defined in GB2312.

TSE

The following changes have been introduced to TSE with this release of HP-UX.

Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Enhancements

The following items are applicable to TSE with these new HKSCS enhancements.

• Five new bitmap fonts are supplied to display all the characters defined in HKSCS in CDE and in the X

Window System. Printer model files have also been enhanced to print all the HKSCS characters on HP

legacy line printers, LaserJet printers supporting PCL5, and third-party printers using ESC/P emulation.

Table 4-8 displays the five new bitmap fonts available under /usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_chinese_t/75dpi

along with fonts.alias. These fonts contain all the Big5 and HKSCS characters assigned to defined code

points in the standard.

• XTIM allows the use of the big5 internal code input method to generate HKSCS characters. The user

must enter the 4-digit hexadecimal code for the character.

• The following printer model files that support the printing of HKSCS characters.

— PCL5.nloo is a printer model file that works with the lp subsystem to print text files containing

Asian multibyte characters on a LaserJet (PCL5 emulation) that does not have any multibyte font

DIMMs installed. PCL5.nloo is enhanced to print text files containing Big5 and/or HKSCS characters

when zh_HK.hkbig5 is designated as one of the print options. When zh_TW.utf8 is designated,

PCL5.nloo prints text files containing UTF8 encoded Big5 and/or HKSCS characters. When

zh_TW.big5 is designated, it prints text files containing only Big5 characters.

NOTE PCL5.nloo does not use any Asian font DIMM even if the LaserJet has the font DIMM

installed.

Table 4-8 New Bitmap Fonts

Filename Fontname

sung18hh.pcf -hp-sung-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-c-160-hphkbig5-

sung24hh.pcf -hp-sung-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-c-240-hphkbig5-

sung34hh.pcf -hp-sung-medium-r-normal--34-340-75-75-c-340-hphkbig5-

sung42hh.pcf -hp-sung-medium-r-normal--42-420-75-75-c-420-hphkbig5-

sung50hh.pcf -hp-sung-medium-r-normal--50-500-75-75-c-500-hphkbig5-