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Modification Date:  17-MAY-2002
Modification Date:  11-JUN-2002
Modification Type:  KIT IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MEDIA

PRODUCT:    OpenVMS Alpha

COMPONENT:  GB18030 support

SOURCE:     Compaq Computer Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPVMSI18N01_073
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: None
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  97902 Blocks
     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha  V7.3
     System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  No
     Rolling Re-boot Supported: N/A
     Installation Rating:  INSTALL_2
                           2 : To be installed by all customers using
                               the following feature(s):

                               GB18030 (Simplified Chinese)


     Kit Dependencies:

       The following remedial kit(s), or  later, 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.

       In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
       kit, the following remedial kits, or later, should also
       be installed:

          None


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for  on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3. This kit addresses
the following problems:

PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN KIT ALPVMSI18N01_073:

  o  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


RELATED ARTICLES:

Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
the OPENVMS database.  To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using either of the following
search strings: 'ALPVMSI18N01_073' or 'ALPVMSI'.


ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:

     [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools


INSTALLATION NOTES:

No reboot is necessary after successful installation of the kit.

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.


  
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  |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
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  |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
  | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  | LOCALE_IVP.EXE             | EA1A1ABB | V7.3-0-02       |  6-MAR-2002  |
  |                                       |                 | 09:46:49.93  |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+



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