NAME

nlio − Native Language I/O (NLIO) Subsystem

DESCRIPTION

The HP-UX Native Language I/O (NLIO) Subsystem is a set of servers, filters, utilities and libraries that provide means to efficiently input and output multibyte characters on multibyte terminals, printers and the X Window System. 

NLIO provides application-transparent multibyte code conversion between the internal code and the external code.  Application programs including HP-UX commands can utilize the feature of the multibyte character I/O over multibyte terminals, printers and the X Window System without modifying the I/O portion of the program code or linking any special I/O library. 

The supported languages are Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. 

NLIO supports the following functionalities:

• Read and write multibyte characters on HP Asian terminals and the X Window System. 

• Print multibyte characters with HP Asian or HP LaserJet printers. 

• Allow HP-UX commands, such as cat(1), more(1), and vi(1), to use multibyte characters.

• Create and modify user-defined characters. 

• Support multibyte characters for the Starbase Graphics Library.

• Provide language-specific popular input methods. 

• Support code conversion utilities and libraries. 

• Create and modify user-defined dictionaries for Japanese and Korean. 

• Read and write Japanese multibyte characters on a bitmap display. 

• Write Japanese multibyte characters on a bitmap display with the FAFM libraries. 

• Provide a set of libraries for Japanese Kana-to-Kanji conversion. 

AUTHOR

nlio was developed by HP. 

SEE ALSO

Native Language I/O manuals

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 10.20:  July 1996