What’s
New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?
All 52 previously supported system supplied utf8 locales have
been updated to support the character repertoire specified by the
Unicode 5.0 standard. In addition, all new 11i v3 utf8 locales (refer
to “New locales - Baltic/Russia/Ukraine/Latin America” section) align
with the Unicode 5.0 standard.
Note that as of 11i v3, the locale binaries provided are version
3. Refer to the “New Locale Versioning” section for
further details regarding levels of support for PA-RISC-based archived
applications.
Changes have been made in the Streams ldterm modules, libc
and associated libc utf8 method libraries, the localedef and the eucset commands, iconv converters, Xlib, fonts, CDE, and Asian print drivers
to support Unicode 5.0.
Users will also notice specific changes in display/printing
aspects between Asian utf8 and non-Asian utf8 locales. Support has
been added within HP-UX to properly support the Unicode Consortium’s
specified “Alternate Width Properties” for Asian locales.
(Refer to “Alternative Width Properties for Unicode
Character Sets” for more details.)
To effect this change within the tty/ldterm settings, the
eucset command has been extended to include a new -c codeset option “ASIAN_UTF8”.
Refer to the eucset(1) manpage for more details. In addition to
eucset command, the CDE components have been enhanced to handle ‘ASIAN_UTF8’ option
for Asian locales.
Significant additions have been made to iconv converters to support new Unicode 5.0 characters, surrogate
characters, byte-order marks and all forms of Unicode-specified transformations,
including UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, big and little-endian forms. Refer
to the system.config.iconv file under /usr/lib/nls/iconv for the complete listing of all iconv converters supported as part of the base operating system.
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