About This Manual

This manual provides information for end users and programmers who want to use and develop internationalized applications in Chinese locales on the HP Tru64 UNIX operating system.

Audience

This manual is for both new and experienced end users and programmers who are interested in the Chinese variant of the Tru64 UNIX operating system.

Organization

This manual is organized as follows:

Related Documents

The following manuals supplement information in this manual:

Tru64 UNIX Writing Software for the International Market and Tru64 UNIX Using International Software describe how to create internationalized programs on Tru64 UNIX and how to use internationalization features of the operating system. These manuals are part of the Tru64 UNIX documentation set and are available on the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/.

Programming for the World: A Guide to Internationalization; (O'Donnell, Sandra Martin, 1994, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA) provides information about cultural and linguistic requirements around the world and the changes needed in computer systems to handle those requirements.

X Window System, Third Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys, 1992, Digital Press , One Burlington Woods Drive, Burlington, MA, USA, 01803

Programmer's Supplement for Release 5 of the X Window System, Version 11, David Flanagan, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 103 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA, USA, 95472

The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 and Version 3.1, The Unicode Consortium, http://www.unicode.org/

Information Technology-Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646:2001. The basic multilingual plane defined by this standard is identical with the main body of Unicode character encoding.

Codes of Chinese Graphic Characters for Information Interchange, Primary Set (GB2312-80) ; National Standards Bureau of China, Beijing, 1980

Chinese Character Input Standard, GB18030-2000 ; National Standards Bureau of China, Beijing, 2001

Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:

%	A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt.
$	A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne and Korn shells.
#	A number sign represents the superuser prompt.
% cat	Boldface type in interactive examples indicates typed user input.
File	Italic type indicates variable values, placeholders, and function argument names.
[ | ] { | }	In syntax definitions, brackets indicate items that are optional and braces indicate items that are required. Vertical bars separating items inside brackets or braces indicate that you choose one item from among those listed.
. . .	In syntax definitions, a horizontal ellipsis indicates that the preceding item can be repeated one or more times.
cat(1)	A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.
[RETURN]	In an example, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that you press that key.
Ctrl/x	This symbol indicates that you hold down the first named key while pessing the key or mouse button that follows the slash. In examples, this key combination is enclosed in a box (for example [Ctrl/C]).