Japanese Character Set

Supported Japanese character sets are:

• JISX0201-1976

• JISX0208-1990

• JISX0212-1990

JISX0212-1990 is not supported in the ja_JP.PCK locale.

Vendor Defined Character (VDC) and User defined Character (UDC) are also supported. VDCs occupy unused (reserved) code points of JISX0208-1990 or JISX0212-1990. UDCs occupy the same code points as VDCs except the code points are for VDCs.