sdeckanji(5)							File Formats Manual						      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 encod-
       ing, 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	Number	of Char-   Code Range
				acters
       ------------------------------------------------------------
       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 sys-
	      tem supports PC code pages, see code_page(5).  UCS-2_sdeckanji, sdeckanji_UCS-2

	      Converting from and to UCS-2 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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