HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Asian System Environment (ASE)
ASE Changes [11i v2]
Chapter 4
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ASE Changes [11i v2]
Changes to Simplified Chinese Input Methods
In order to support input for characters defined by the GB18030 standard a new Chinese input method,
Intelligent ABC, has been added to HP-UX. Two obsolete Simplified Chinese input methods have been
removed.
Since 2001 HP-UX has supported the China mandatory National Standard GB18030, but did not have a
modern S-Chinese input method for the input of GB18030 characters.
The Intelligent ABC Chinese input method is a very powerful and popular input method in China. It is widely
used in MS Windows, IBM AIX, Apple Mac OS, and Linux. It supports the full GB18030 character set and has
been certified by the Chinese standards agency CITS. The input method is based on Pinyin. It is easy to learn
and supports stroke input, word input and user defined words.
The Intelligent ABC input method will support zh_CN.hp15CN, zh_CN.utf8 and zh_CN.gb18030, the three
Simplified Chinese locales.
The T-C and T-C Rapid input methods will be removed from HP-UX 11i v2 due to low customer usage.
Impact to the Customer
Availability of Intelligent ABC in HP-UX 11i v2 and later version. Removal of T-C and T-C Rapid input
methods (obsolete).
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues involved with the addition of this feature.
Performance
There is no impact to performance.
Documentation
The change is documented in the SSE User’s Guide.
Obsolescence
T-C and T-C Rapid input methods of XSIM have been removed.
Printing using Asian TrueType fonts for PCL5 printers
A text file including Asian characters can be printed on an HP PCL5 printer using Asian TrueType fonts
which are installed by default in HP-UX.
The PCL5.asian printer model that works with the lp command has been enhanced to print as many Asian
characters as possible by accessing both printer resident fonts and host-installed TrueType fonts. In previous
HP-UX releases, these printer models supported printer-resident fonts only.
If there are no Asian resident fonts in a PCL5 printer, use the -onodimm option for the PCL5.asian model in
order to download the Asian characters rasterized from host-installed TrueType fonts.