Problems Affecting non-C Locales

Difference between English and Japanese HP-UX STK

The English and Japanese versions of the STK bundled with HP-UX 11i may contain differing documentation (the STK tools are identical for both languages). To verify that you have the latest Japanese documentation set, view this web site:

http://devresource.hp.com/STK_ja_JP.SJIS

Restrictions with Netscape Communicator 4.79

The trial version of Netscape Communicator provided with HP-UX 11i OEs has these problems with several Asian locales, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese:

Character-code handling with Perl

Although Perl 5.6.1 does not directly support wide characters, its experimental support of Unicode may be your resolution. JPerl 5.005_003 is another solution to handle Japanese multi-byte characters by older version of Perl.

What To Do

Get the patch jperl5.005_03 and apply it to Perl. This patch is open source and available at a number of non-HP FTP sites.

Follow these steps:

	NOTE: Once patched with jperl5.005_003, Perl cannot be used as Mod_perl under the Apache server.