HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2

• New: Big5-2003 and CNS11643 Standards: Now supported.
• New: HKSCS-2004 (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set): Now supported.
• New: Locales - Baltic/Russia/Ukraine/Latin America: Now supported.
• New: Locale Versioning: localedef/libc UNIX 2003-related I18N changes. New locale version
“locales.3” has been generated for all system supported locale binaries. This has been provided
to protect older PA-RISC-based archived applications from unexpected systems behavior in
order to fully support the UNIX 2003 standard.
• UNIX 2003 Support: The localedef, locale and iconv commands and the associated
C library APIs, locale databases and iconv converters have been updated to align with the
UNIX 2003 standard.
• Alternate Width Properties for Unicode Codesets: Now supported for Asian locales.
• New: Messaging Commands: mkcatdefs, dspmsg, and dspcat . Added to HP-UX for
compatibility with Tru64 UNIX.
• New: Iconv Codeset Converter Config File Changes: system.config.iconv. New
system.config.iconv file provided to separate the HP-UX core OS iconv mapping table
information from the layered third-party and user-specific iconv mapping table information.
• Japanese Mainframe Character Set: iconv now supports an extended area of Japanese
mainframe character sets.
• New: Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf: New PostScript printer filter
psfontpf enables printing of non-English international characters in text files and web pages.
• Asian Printing: Asian lp model files and filters have been enhanced to support important
Asian national standards and ISO 10646.
• TrueType Fonts for European Codesets: Provides additional TrueType fonts support to cover
the glyph patterns for ASCII, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin-Extended-B, Greek,
Cyrillic, and currency symbols.
• Asian TrueType Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO10646. New
typefaces are provided for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese fonts.
• Asian Bitmap Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO 10646.
• Fallback Font Support: For text-based GUI applications, in the event there are no glyphs, the
application will display “?” or “::” characters.
• Asian Functionality (Obsoleted and Deprecated): Several legacy functions are obsolete and
have been removed. Also, certain Asian printer lp models, utility/library routines, and dot
bitmap fonts have been deprecated.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• Common Desktop Environment: Updated to version 2.1. Now includes native Itanium®-based
32-bit and 64-bit X/Motif libraries; delivers 64-bit PA-RISC and Itanium®-based libraries for
the first time in HP-UX 11i v3; supports Node and Host Name Expansion feature and expanded
username feature; and includes many other changes.
• Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login: Default permissions of
3 files have changed; several new filesets are available on PA-RISC and Itanium®-based
systems; several products are not available with DCE Client; Integrated Login has 2 new
filesets.
What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the initial (February 2007)
release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further details,
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