Summary of Worldwide Language Support Patches

The following sections provide brief descriptions of the changes delivered in the Version 5.1B-5 patch kit and in previous Version 5.1B patch kits for the WLS subset of the Tru64 UNIX operating system.

Each patch provides fixes to subsets of the WLS software. Subset names (listed in italic font in the following list) consist of four parts; for example, for subset IOSJPBASE540, the IOS indicates that the subset is part of the WLS package, the JP indicates a locale, the BASE indicates a category, and the 540 indicates that the subset belongs to the Version 5.1B operating system.

New Patches

The patch summaries in this section describe changes that are new in this release.

Patch 28102.00

IOSJPBASE540

Provides modified localization messages for Japanese and Chinese locales. The modified localization messages are reflections of the English version that have been updated after the V5.1B-4 release.

Patch 28214.00

IOSWWBASE540

Corrects a problem with iconv converter that generates wrong character codes for a Unicode surrogate pair.
Includes ICONV_OLD_SURROGATE environment variable for backward compatibility. When the ICONV_OLD_SURROGATE environment variable is set to a non-null value, iconv generates the same codes as before.

Patch 28256.00

IOSZHCNBASE540

Provides modified localization messages for Japanese and Chinese locales. The modified localization messages are reflections of the English version that have been updated after the V5.1B-4 release.

Patches Delivered in Previous Kits

The following WLS patches were delivered in previous Version 5.1B patch kits. These patches will be installed on your system if you did not install the previous kit.

Patch 27102.00

IOSJPBASE540

Provides modified localization messages for Japanese and Chinese locales. The modified localization messages are reflections of the English version ones that have been updated after the V5.1B-3 release.
Updates some Japanese message catalog files to keep up with corresponding English message catalog files that have been updated after the V5.1B-3 release.
Updates the Japanese message file to keep up with the corresponding English version that has been updated after the V5.1B-3 release.
Provides updated Japanese message files for the SysMan suitlets and others.
Fixes a problem that causes the iconv converter to produce incorrect strings every 4,096 bytes of the output in the codeset conversion between Japanese mainframe codesets (ibmkanji/JEF/KEIS) and other supported Japanese codesets, such as eucJP.
Fixes an ASU problem in Japanese locales where a double-byte hyphen character in a file name is incorrectly converted to an ASCII underscore character.
Updates several Japanese message catalog files to catch up with corresponding English message catalog files that have been updated.
Fixes a problem in which unnecessary quotation marks are included in the Japanese messages for Japanese dictionary's converters, jsy2vjetxt, jsy2wxtxt, vje2jsytxt, and wx2jsytxt.
Updates the Japanese version of more.cat to keep it in line with the English version.
Fixes a problem in which the Japanese dictionary's converters jsy2vjetxt, jsy2wxtxt, vje2jsytxt, and wx2jsytxt do not display Japanese messages even though the message catalog files are provided.
Updates some Japanese message catalog files to keep up with corresponding English message catalog files that have been updated after the V5.1B-2 release.
Updates some Japanese message catalog files to keep up with corresponding English message catalog files that have been updated after the V5.1B-2 release.

Patch 27103.00

IOSJPBIN540

Fixes a problem with the Asian tty that can cause a kernel crash and a hang-up problem during a certain type of the login/logout stress test.

Patch 27106.00

IOSJPCDEDT540

Updates some Japanese message catalog files to keep up with corresponding English message catalog files.
Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file access.
Provides new error messages for the dtprintinfo and dtwm applications.
Makes applications display correct error messages under the Japanese locale setting.
Updates the Japanese version of message and uil files to keep up with the English version.

Patch 27125.00

IOSJPSYSMAN540

Adds localization messages for Japanese locales. The messages are to be added to catch up with the addition of messages in the English version that have been updated after the V5.1B-3 release.
Provides new Japanese online help files for SysMan file system applications as well as update translations for other SysMan applications.
Provides updated Japanese message files for the SysMan suitlets and others.
Updates the Japanese version of message and uil files to keep up with the English version.
Updates some Japanese message catalog files to keep up with corresponding English message catalog files which have been updated after the V5.1B-2 release.

Patch 27131.00

IOSJPXADMIN540

Provides updated Japanese message files for the SysMan suitlets and others.

Patch 27134.00

IOSJPXSYSMAN540

Provides new Japanese online help files for SysMan file system applications as well as update translations for other SysMan applications.
Provides updated Japanese message files for the SysMan suitlets and others.
Updates the Japanese version of message and uil files to keep up with the English version.

Patch 27214.00

IOSWWBASE540

Fixes a display width mismatch problem in the zh_CN.GB18030 locale.

Patch 27215.00

IOSWWBIN540

Fixes a problem with the Asian tty that can cause a kernel crash and a hang-up problem during a certain type of the login/logout stress test.

Patch 27248.00

IOSWWSYSMAN540

Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file access.

Patch 27251.00

IOSWWX11540

Fixes a problem in which the Qu-Wei input method invoked from dxhanziim or dxim does not produce a correct character from Unicode value.

Patch 27256.00

IOSZHCNBASE540

Provides modified localization messages for Japanese and Chinese locales. The modified localization messages are reflections of the English version ones that have been updated after the V5.1B-3 release.
Fixes a display width mismatch problem in the zh_CN.GB18030 locale.

Patch 27271.00

IOSZHSSYSMAN540

Provides an updated Chinese message file for the SysMan applications and others.

Patch 27276.00

IOSZHSXADMIN540

Provides an updated Chinese message file for the SysMan applications and others.