VMSI18N084 - I18N facilities Release Notes









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Introduction

     This document contains the release notes for OpenVMS
     Internationalization (I18N) data kit on OpenVMS.

     This kit allows application developers to create international
     software.  You can obtain information about a language and a
     culture by reading this information from 'locale' files.  This kit
     contains all of the supported locale files.

     The kit also contains a set of Unicode codeset converters which
     allows conversion between any supported codeset, including DEC
     Multinational Character Set and Microsoft Code Page 437, to any
     flavor of Unicode encoding:  UCS-2, UCS-4 or UTF-8.

     For more information, please see the C Run-Time Library Utilities
     Reference Manual in the OpenVMS documentation set.



Kit Name:

     VMSI18N084

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Kit Description:

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

     OpenVMS Alpha and I64



     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:

         None.







Installation Instructions

     Install this kit with the POLYCENTER Software Installation utility
     by logging into the SYSTEM account, and typing the following at the
     DCL prompt:

     $ PRODUCT INSTALL VMSI18N /SOURCE=<location of saveset>

     The saveset location may be a tape drive, CD, or a disk directory
     that contains the PCSI kit.

     There are categories of locales that you may select to install.
     You may select as many of them as you need.

         European and U.S. support [YES]

         Japanese support [YES]

         Korean support [YES]

         Thai support [YES]

         Chinese support [YES]

         Unicode support [YES]

     No reboot is necessary after successful installation of the kit.