New Latin and South American Locales [11i v2]

Summary

System level support is provided for numerous Latin/South American countries in HP-UX 11i v2. This includes support for the input, storage, retrieval, display and printing of characters encoded in ISO-88591, ISO-885915 or UTF-8 character sets.

A total of 51 new locales are provided in HP-UX 11i v2 to enable system level support for the Latin/South American geographies.

The following locale binaries are delivered for PA-RISC 1.1 and PA-RISC 2.0 versions as well as both 32- and 64-bit Itanium®-based versions..

Table 3-1 List of new Latin/South American locales

Country	ISO-88591 based	ISO-885915 based	utf8 based
Brazil	pt_BR.iso88591	pt_BR.iso885915	pt_BR.utf8
Argentina	es_AR.iso88591	es_AR.iso885915	es_AR.utf8
Chile	es_CL.iso88591	es_CL.iso885915	es_CL.utf8
Colombia	es_CO.iso88591	es_CO.iso885915	es_CO.utf8
Mexico	es_MX.iso88591	es_MX.iso885915	es_MX.utf8
Peru	es_PE.iso88591	es_PE.iso885915	es_PE.utf8
Puerto Rico	es_PR.iso88591	es_PR.iso885915	es_PR.utf8
Uruguay	es_UY.iso88591	es_UY.iso885915	es_UY.utf8
Venezuela	es_VE.iso88591	es_VE.iso885915	es_VE.utf8
Bolivia	es_BO.iso88591	es_BO.iso885915	es_BO.utf8
Costa Rica	es_CR.iso88591	es_CR.iso885915	es_CR.utf8
Ecuador	es_EC.iso88591	es_EC.iso885915	es_EC.utf8
El Salvador	es_SV.iso88591	es_SV.iso885915	es_SV.utf8
Guatemala	es_GT.iso88591	es_GT.iso885915	es_GT.utf8
Nicaragua	es_NI.iso88591	es_NI.iso885915	es_NI.utf8
Panama	es_PA.iso88591	es_PA.iso885915	es_PA.utf8
Paraguay	es_PY.iso88591	es_PY.iso885915	es_PY.utf8

UTF-8 locales adhere to the character repertoire defined in the Unicode 3.0 Standard.

Localization of the message catalogs for core HP-UX OS commands are supported for Spanish-based locales (es_*).

X11R6 Xlib and CDE provide support for all of these locales.

Printer Support

The following printer model files have been enhanced to support these locales:

PCL4
PCL5
colorlaserjet
deskjet1200C
deskjet1600CM
hp33447a
hp5000c30
hp5000f100
hpC1208a
laserjet
laserjet4
laserjet4Si
laserjet4v
laserjet5Si
laserjetIIISi
paintjetXL300

To specify printing in either of the ISO-885915 or UTF-8 locales, use the lp option -ocs9N (or -oscs9N) to select the correct character set as the primary (or secondary) character set. For example:

lp -dprinter_name -ocs9N -oother_options print_filename




	NOTE: It is expected that the printer supports ISO-885915 (Latin 9) fonts to allow for printing codeset specific characters, such as the Euro.

For ISO-88591 locales, no codeset (-cs) option is required.

Impact to the Customer

Base offering (installed on all systems): Approximately 136 MB additional disk space is required. No additional memory requirements are needed when running in any of these locales.

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues involved with the addition of this feature.

Performance

There is no impact to performance.

Machines Affected or No Longer Supported

System level support for this new set of Latin and South American locales is not provided for applications compiled in 10.20 mode. Only applications compiled on 11.0 and later releases are supported.

Future Plans

Additional locales may be provided in future releases in response to enhancement requests.

New Latin and South American Locales [11i v2]

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