Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set [11i v1.6]

System level support is provided for the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) extension to the big5 encoding for Hong Kong. This allows for the input, storage, retrieval, display and printing of HKSCS characters. This support is based on the repertoire specified in Unicode 2.1 and the ISO 10646-1:1993 standards.

HKSCS is a collection of 4,702 characters defined by the Hong Kong Special Administration Region (HKSAR) government in September 1999. These characters are specific to the Hong Kong region and are intended to be a common set of characters used for computing requirements throughout Hong Kong.

HKSCS support has been provided in HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 through a new locale, iconv converters, fonts and updates to Xlib, CDE, input method, and printer model files. The following changes have occurred:

A new locale has been provided, zh_HK.hkbig5, to support the HKSCS specified character repertoire within the big5 encoding. This locale is a renaming of the zh_HK.big5 locale that was first offered in HP-UX 11.11. This rename was required since unexpected results in the display of HKSCS characters could occur due to conflicts in the codeset name with the zh_TW.big5 locale.

New iconv converters have been provided to allow for conversion between HKSCS big5-based encodings, Unicode, and UTF-8. The following converter tables have been added:
- hkbig5 <-> ucs2
- hkbig5 <-> utf8

X11R6 Xlib has been enhanced to provide support for the zh_HK.hkbig5 locale.

The base offering (installed on all systems) requires approximately an additional 7 MB of disk space.

No additional memory requirements are needed for running in the zh_HK.hkbig5 locale.

Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set [11i v1.6]

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