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sdeckanji(5)


NAME

  sdeckanji - A character encoding system (codeset) for Japanese


DESCRIPTION

  The Super DEC Kanji codeset extends the DEC Kanji codeset to support the
  CS2 (JIS Katakana) and CS3 (JIS X0212) character sets that are also
  included in the Japanese EUC codeset. Super DEC Kanji is therefore a
  superset of both DEC Kanji and Japanese EUC and can handle data encoded in
  either DEC Kanji or Japanese EUC. The codeset was implemented to ease the
  transition from DEC Kanji, which is proprietary encoding, to Japanese EUC,
  which is encoding specified by an industry standard.

  In addition to supporting standard Japanese character sets, Super DEC Kanji
  provides three areas for defining User-Defined Characters (UDC). The UDC
  areas are as follows:

  __________________________________________________________
  Area Usage   Row Range		     Code Range

			   Number of
			   Characters
  __________________________________________________________
  JIS X0208    85-94	   940		     F5A1-FEFE
  JIS X0212    78-94	   1598		     SS3 [EEA1-FEFE]
  UDC	       1-94	   8836		     A121-FE7E
  __________________________________________________________

  The representation of ASCII/JIS Roman, JIS X0208 and User-Defined
  Characters (UDC) in Super DEC Kanji is the same as that in DEC Kanji. The
  representation of CS2 and CS3 in Super DEC Kanji is the same as that in
  Japanese EUC.

  Codeset Conversion

  The following codeset converter pairs are available for converting Japanese
  characters between sdeckanji and other encoding formats.  Refer to
  iconv_intro(5) for an introduction to codeset conversion. For more
  information about the other codeset for which sdeckanji is the input or
  output, see the reference page specified in the list item.

    ·  deckanji_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_deckanji

       Converting from and to the DEC Kanji codeset: deckanji(5).

    ·  eucJP_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_eucJP

       Converting from and to Japanese Extended UNIX Code: eucJP(5).

    ·  ISO-2022-JP_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_ISO-2022JP

       Converting from and to the ISO 2022-JP codeset: iso2022jp(5).

    ·  ISO-2022-JPext_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_ISO-2022JPext

       Converting from and to the ISO 2022-JP Extended codeset: iso2022jp(5).

    ·  JIS7_sdeckanji or jiskanji7_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_JIS7 or
       sdeckanji_jiskanji7

       Converting from and to 7-bit JIS Kanji code: jiskanji(5).

    ·  SJIS_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_SJIS

       Converting from and to the Shift JIS codeset: SJIS(5).

       Shift JIS encoding is identical to encoding used in the Microsoft
       Japanese code page for PC systems. Therefore, you can use these
       converters to convert Japanese characters between Super DEC Kanji and
       PC code-page format. For information on how the operating system
       supports PC code pages, see code_page(5).

    ·  UTF-16_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_UTF-16

       Converting from and to UTF-16 format: Unicode(5).

    ·  UCS-4_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_UCS-4

       Converting from and to UCS-4 format: Unicode(5).

    ·  UTF-8_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_UTF-8

       Converting from and to UTF--8 format: Unicode(5).

  Font Support for Super DEC Kanji

  For display devices, the operating system supports sdeckanji code by
  converting it to deckanji and using fonts available for deckanji.

  Refer to i18n_printing(5) and Japanese(5) for information about supporting
  print jobs that contain Japanese characters.


SEE ALSO

  Commands: locale(1)

  Others: ascii(5), code_page(5), deckanji(5), eucJP(5), i18n_intro(5),
  i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5), iso2022jp(5), Japanese(5), jiskanji(5),
  l10n_intro(5), shiftjis(5), Unicode(5)

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