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eucJP(5)
NAME
  eucJP - A character encoding system (codeset) for Japanese

DESCRIPTION
  The Japanese EUC (Extended UNIX Code), or eucJP, codeset consists of the
  following character sets:

    ·  CS0 (ASCII or JIS Roman)

    ·  CS1 (JIS X0208)

    ·  CS2 (JIS Katakana)

    ·  CS3 (JIS X0212)

  CS0 is a primary character set. CS1, CS2, and CS3 are supplementary
  character sets. The MSB (Most Significant Bit) of the byte that represents
  a character in CS0 is set off, whereas the MSB of the bytes that represent
  characters in CS1, CS2, and CS3 is set on.

  Japanese EUC Encoding

  The representation of ASCII/JIS Roman and JIS X0208 characters in the
  Japanese EUC codeset is similar to how those characters are represented in
  the DEC Kanji codeset (refer to deckanji(5)). The two additional character
  sets, JIS Katakana and JIS X0212, are encoded in the Japanese EUC codeset
  by making use of the SS2 (Single Shift 2) and SS3 (Single Shift 3) control
  characters.

  The Japanese EUC codeset provides the following two areas for
  representation of user-defined characters (UDC):

  __________________________________________________________
  Area Usage   Row Range		     Code Range

			   Number of
			   Characters
  __________________________________________________________
  JIS X0208    85-94	   940		     F5A1-FEFE
  JIS X0212    78-94	   1598		     SS3 [EEA1-FEFE]
  __________________________________________________________

  The representation of UDCs on these two code planes is identical to that
  for standard characters that occupy the same planes. Code ranges
  distinguish between UDCs and standard JIS X0208 and JIS X0212 characters
  that occupy the same plane.

  Currently, the operating system does not support JIS X0212 (JIS
  Supplementary) characters.

  Codeset Conversion

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

    ·  deckanji_eucJP, eucJP_deckanji

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

    ·  ISO-2022-JP_eucJP, eucJP_ISO-2022-JP

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

    ·  ISO-2022-JPext_eucJP, eucJP_ISO-2022-JPext

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

    ·  JIS7_eucJP, eucJP_JIS7

       Converting from and to the JIS7 codeset: jiskanji(5).

    ·  SJIS_eucJP, eucJP_SJIS

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

       Shift JIS encoding is identical to the encoding used in the Microsoft
       PC code page for Japanese. You can therefore use these converters to
       convert Japanese text from and to Japanese code-page format. See
       code_page(5) for more information about how the operating system
       supports PC code pages.

    ·  sdeckanji_eucJP, eucJP_sdeckanji

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

    ·  UTF-16_eucJP, eucJP_UTF-16

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

    ·  UCS-4_eucJP, eucJP_UCS-4

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

    ·  UTF-8_eucJP, eucJP_UTF-8

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

  Japanese EUC Fonts

  For display devices, the operating system supports Japanese EUC characters
  by converting Japanese EUC code to DEC Kanji code and then using the fonts
  for DEC Kanji. Because the CS3 character set is not supported by the DEC
  Kanji codeset, CS3 characters cannot be displayed.

  The operating system does not provide PostScript fonts for Japanese EUC.
  Some printers support Japanese with printer-resident fonts and print
  filters perform codeset conversion, if required, for the encoding used in
  the file input to the print job. For some other printers, you can set up a
  print filter to convert Japanese bitmap fonts to PostScript. Refer to
  i18n_printing(5) for introductory information about your printing options.

SEE ALSO
  Commands: locale(1)

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

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