Japanese Character Support

AS/U supports only Japanese in Shift-JIS encoding. The EUC codeset is not supported.

Japanese capability of AS/U is only supported on HP-UX 10.20. It requires no additional disk space and memory than that of the AS/U running in English mode.

The following clients have been tested with AS/U with Japanese:

To enable AS/U Japanese capabilities,
please start AS/U processes with LANG=ja_JP.SJIS globally:

LANG=ja_JP.SJIS
export LANG
net start server

or with every invocation of AS/U commands:
LANG=ja_JP.SJIS net start server
LANG=ja_JP.SJIS net user USER1
or
Set the lanman.ini parameter [lmxserver]lang=ja_JP.SJIS, then type:
net start server.

HP recommends this last method which will prevent accidentally starting AS/U in an incorrect locale.

Japanese is supported for the following:

Japanese is not supported for share names, domain names, user login names or user passwords.

DOS utilities uchmod.exe, ud.exe, uren.exe, and udir.exe are not supported for Japanese file/directory name.

The bundled server management tools for Windows NT workstation and Windows 95 are not supported on Japanese Windows NT workstation(J) and Windows 95(J).

AS/U cannot handle the following Shift-JIS characters because the unicode conversion table differs between HP and Microsoft. The HP conversion table conforms to the Unicode standard, whereas the Microsoft conversions are a variant to support backward compatibility with earlier Microsoft platforms (Windows 95, Windows 3.1).

SJIS code 8160 8161 817C 8191 8192 81CA

HP Unicode 301C 2016 2212 00A2 00A3 00AC MS Unicode FF5E 2225 FF0D FFE0 FFE1 FFE2

As a workaround, you can modify the iconv conversion table bundled with HP-UX using the following procedure from the HP-UX prompt.

	CAUTION: This procedure facilitates Microsoft NT and Windows 95 interoperability. However, it modifies original operating system files and may break other applications which depend on the original contents of these conversion tables such as those relying on UNIX-based interoperability of SJIS and Unicode.

AS/U cannot handle the following characters as file or directory names from Windows 95(J) clients. 8470 - 8491 (SJIS code)

Windows 95(J) converts the characters to their uppercase (8440 - 8460) and tries to access them, when the a character in the above range is given as a file or directory name. As AS/U does not support uppercase-to-lowercase conversion for 2-byte characters. They cannot be handled by AS/U. No workaround.

AS/U can only run batch files from Windows 95(J) clients if the file or directory names are specified in the 8.3 format. This is not a Japanese specific problem but an MS-DOS limitation.

Example: The following batch files cannot run.

g:\a1234567890\test.bat g:\a123456\test567890.bat

No workaround.