Special Support for Ideogrammatic Languages

The following sections discuss special support in Digital UNIX Version 4.0 for ideogrammatic languages, like Chinese and Japanese.

Sorting and the asort Utility

Digital UNIX Version 4.0 supports the asort utility, an extension of the sort command, which allows characters of ideogrammatic languages, like Chinese and Japanese, to be sorted according to multiple collation sequences. For more information on the asort utility, see asort(1).

Multilingual EMACS

Digital UNIX Version 4.0 supports the Multilingual EMACS editor (MULE) for Asian languages. See MULE(1) for more information.

Mail and 8-Bit Support

Digital UNIX Version 4.0 provides support for ideogrammatic languages in mailx, dtmail, MH, and comsat.

For more information on these mail utilities, see the corresponding reference pages.

User-Defined Characters

Digital UNIX Version 4.0 provides support for creating user-defined characters (UDCs) for ideogrammatic languages, so that users can create and define character fonts and their attributes, including DECwindows fonts, with the cgen and cedit utilities. For more information on these utilities, see the appropriate reference pages.

Digital UNIX Version 4.0 also provides font rendering facilities so that X clients can use UDC databases through the X Server or font server to obtain bitmap fonts for user-defined characters.

For more information on user-defined characters, see Writing Software for the International Market.