ECO NUMBER:  ALPVMSI18N01_073

             PRODUCT:  OpenVMS Alpha OPERATING SYSTEM V7.3

             UPDATE PRODUCT:  OpenVMS Alpha OPERATING SYSTEM V7.3









            OpenVMS Internationalization (I18N) ECO Cover Letter









             © 2002 Compaq Computer Corporation.



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             FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software,

             Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for

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             Compaq shall not be liable for technical or editorial

             errors or omissions contained herein. The information

             in this document is provided as is without warranty of

             any kind and is subject to change without notice. The

             warranties for Compaq products are set forth in the express

             limited warranty statements accompanying such products.

             Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an

             additional warranty.





1  KIT NAME:



     ALPVMSI18N01_073





2  KITS SUPERSEDED BY THIS KIT:



     None


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3  KIT DEPENDENCIES:



     3.1  The following remedial kit(s) must be installed BEFORE

          installation of this, or any required kit:





     On OpenVMS V7.2-2 and V7.3, this kit requires a Compaq C Runtime

     kit installed which supports the GB18030 locale.





     3.2  In order to receive all the corrections listed in this kit,

          the following remedial kits should also be installed:





     None.





4  KIT DESCRIPTION:



     4.1  Version(s) of OpenVMS to which this kit may be applied:



     OpenVMS Alpha V7.3





     4.2  Files provided:



     The user selects which files to install, based on geography.  Only

     files new in this kit will be listed.



      o  SYS$I18N_LOCALE:*.*



         Locales for various locations, based on user selected options.



      o  SYS$I18N_ICONV:*.*



         Converters for various character sets, based on user selected

         options.



      o  New to this kit:



         SYS$I18N_LOCALE:



           UTF8-30.LOCALE                (Unicode V3.0 locale)

           ZH_CN_GB18030.LOCALE



         SYS$I18N_ICONV:



           GB18030_UCS-2.ICONV           (GB18030 -> UCS-2 conversion)

           GB18030_UCS-4.ICONV           (GB18030 -> UCS-4 conversion)

           GB18030_UTF-8.ICONV           (GB18030 -> UTF-8 conversion)

           UCS-2_GB18030.ICONV           (UCS-2 -> GB18030 conversion)

           UCS-4_GB18030.ICONV           (UCS-4 -> GB18030 conversion)

           UTF-8_GB18030.ICONV           (UTF-8 -> GB18030 conversion)




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5  PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN KIT



     ALPVMSI18N01_073



      o  GB18030 - A Chinese character set







         China passed a new Chinese character set standard,

         GB18030-2000, on March 17, 2000.  GB18030-2000 is based on the

         existing GB2312-1980 character set and the GBK character set

         (a.k.a.  Microsoft Code page 936) extended to 4-byte code

         points.  (Note that GBK is not supported by OpenVMS yet.) That

         is, GB18030-2000 is a superset of the GBK and the GB2312-1980

         character sets.  This standard has more than enough code points

         to adopt all the characters defined in ISO/IEC 10646.

         Essentially, GB18030-2000 covers the same set of characters

         covered by the Unicode Version 3.0 and ISO/IEC 10646-2000

         standards.



         ALPVMSI18N01_073 brings the GB18030 support to OpenVMS V7.3.

         ALPVMSI18N04_072 brings the GB18030 support to OpenVMS V7.2-2.



         GB18030 components and codeset converters from the current kit

         are aimed at applications based on X/Open internationalization

         model according to which character classification, case

         conversion, and cultural data are retrieved at run-time from

         the current programs locale using the C Run-Time Library

         functions.



         GB18030 support includes:





          -  zh_CN.GB18030 locale, a Chinese locale for the People's

             Republic of China (uses the GB18030 codeset, which extends

             GBK by means of 4-byte encoding).



          -  UTF8-30 locale, Unicode V3.0.



          -  Codeset converters.  The following codeset converter pairs

             are available for converting Simplified Chinese characters

             between GB18030 and UCS formats.



              .  UCS-2_GB18030, GB18030_UCS-2



                 Converting from and to UCS-2 format



              .  UCS-4_GB18030, GB18030_UCS-4



                 Converting from and to UCS-4 format



              .  UTF-8_GB18030, GB18030_UTF-8



                 Converting from and to UTF-8 format




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6  KIT INSTALLATION RATING



     The following kit installation rating, based upon current CLD

     information, is provided to serve as a guide to which customers

     should apply this remedial kit.  (Reference attached Disclaimer of

     Warranty and Limitation of Liability Statement)



     INSTALLATION RATING:





        INSTALL_2 : To be installed by all customers using the following

                feature(s):



          GB18030 (Simplified Chinese)







7  INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS



     Install this kit with the VMSINSTAL utility by logging into the

     SYSTEM account, and typing the following at the DCL prompt:



     $ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL ALPVMSI18N01_073 <location of saveset>



     The saveset location may be a tape drive, CD, or a disk directory

     that contains the kit saveset.



     There are categories of locales that you may select to install.

     You may select as many of them as you need.



     * Do you want European and US support [YES]?

     * Do you want GB18030 support [YES]?

     * Do you want Chinese support (not including GB18030) [YES]?

     * Do you want Japanese support [YES]?

     * Do you want Korean support [YES]?

     * Do you want Thai support [YES]?

     * Do you want Unicode support [YES]?



     This kit also has an Installation Verification Procedure which we

     recommend that you run to verify the correct installation of the

     kit.  Instructions on running this IVP are given during the

     installation procedure.



     No reboot is necessary after successful installation of the kit.