NAME | DESCRIPTION | NOTES | SEE ALSO
PCK stands for PC Kanji code. It is also known as Shift–JIS (MS kanji) code. This manual page shows map between PCK and character set.
PCK allocates the first byte of each kanji code which corresponds to JIS X0208–1990 and so on to the code other than code range of 0x00–0x7f and 0xa1–0xdf. The following is a map table for PCK and character set.
PCK | character set |
0x00 – 0x19 | JIS X 0201–1976 function character set |
0x20 | JIS X 0201–1976 space character |
0x21 – 0x7e | JIS X 0201–1976 figure character set for roman character |
0x7f | JIS X 0201–1976 erase character |
0xa1 – 0xdf | JIS X 0201–1976 figure character set for katakana (except for an area of undefined character E/0 – F/14) |
0x8140 – 0x817e | JIS X 0208–1990 (1 ku 1 ten – 1 ku 63 ten) |
0x8180 – 0x819e | JIS X 0208–1990 (1 ku 64 ten – 1 ku 94 ten) |
0x819f – 0x81fc | JIS X 0208–1990 (2 ku 1 ten – 2 ku 94 ten) |
: | : |
: | : |
0x9f9f – 0x9ffc | JIS X 0208–1990 (62 ku 1 ten – 62 ku 94 ten) |
0xe040 – 0xe07e | JIS X 0208–1990 (63 ku 1 ten – 63 ku 63 ten) |
: | : |
: | : |
0xea40 – 0xea7e | JIS X 0208–1990 (83 ku 1 ten – 83 ku 63 ten) |
0xea80 – 0xea9e | JIS X 0208–1990 (83 ku 64 ten – 83 ku 94 ten) |
0xea9f – 0xeafc | JIS X 0208–1990 (84 ku 1 ten – 84 ku 94 ten) |
The differences from character set of Japanese EUC are,
Character set of Japanese EUC codeset 3 (JIS X 0212–1990) is not assigned except a part of Vender Defined Character (IBM extension character) (see NOTES).
Character set which corresponds to Japanese EUC C1 control code is not assigned.
In PCK area below has special meaning.
PCK | area of character set | meaning |
0x8740 – 0x879e | JIS X 0208–1990 13 ku | Vender Defined Character |
(special symbols) | ||
0xeb40 – 0xecfc | Invalid | |
0xed40 – 0xeffc | Vender Defined Character | |
(IBM extension character NEC | ||
selected) | ||
0xf040 – 0xf9fc | User Defined Character | |
1 ku – 20 ku | ||
0xfa40 – 0xfcfc | Vender Defined Character | |
(IBM extension character) |
NAME | DESCRIPTION | NOTES | SEE ALSO