man pages section 7: Standards, Environments, Macros, Character Sets, and Miscellany

eucJP (7)

Name

eucJP, eucjp - map between Japanese EUC and character set

Description

In SunOS and JFP, Japanese EUC (Extended UNIX code) is used as character code system expressing multibyte languages including Japanese character in the "ja" locale. This manual page shows map between Japanese EUC and character set.

The following is a map table for Japanese EUC and character set (SS2 stands for 0x8e, and SS3 stands for 0x8f).

Table 2  Japanese EUC and Character Set

Japanese EUC 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 0x80 – 0x9f ISO 6429 C1 control character (except for 0x8e, 0x8f) SS2 0xa1 – 0xdf JIS X 0201–1976 figure character set for katakana (except for an area of undefined character E/0 – F/14) SS3 0xa1a1 – 0xa1fe JIS X 0212–1990 (1 ku 1 ten – 1 ku 94 ten) SS3 0xa2a1 – 0xa2fe JIS X 0212–1990 (2 ku 1 ten – 2 ku 94 ten) : : : : SS3 0xf3a1 – 0xf3fe JIS X 0212–1990 (83 ku 1 ten – 83 ku 94 ten) SS3 0xf4a1 – 0xf4fe JIS X 0212–1990 (84 ku 1 ten – 84 ku 94 ten) 0xa1a1 – 0xa1fe JIS X 0208–1990 (1 ku 1 ten – 1 ku 94 ten) 0xa2a1 – 0xa2fe JIS X 0208–1990 (2 ku 1 ten – 2 ku 94 ten) : : : : 0xf3a1 – 0xf3fe JIS X 0208–1990 (83 ku 1 ten – 83 ku 94 ten) 0xf4a1 – 0xf4fe JIS X 0208–1990 (84 ku 1 ten – 84 ku 94 ten)

Each character set corresponds with Japanese EUC code set numbers as follows.

Table 3  Japanese EUC Code Set Numbers

Character set (coding character set) Japanese EUC extended code set # JIS X 0201 figure character set for roman character 0 JIS X 0208–1990 1 JIS X 0201 figure character set for katakana 2 JIS X 0212–1990 3

Notes

In Japanese EUC area below has special meaning.

Table 4  Japanese EUC Character Set

Japanese EUC Area of character set Meaning SS3 0xf3a1 – 0xf4fe JIS X 0212–1990 83 ku – 84 ku Vendor Defined Character (IBM extension character not included in JIS X 0212–1990) SS3 0xf5a1 – 0xfefe User Defined Character 11 ku – 20 ku 0xada1 – 0xadfe JIS X 0208–1990 13 ku Vendor Defined Character (special symbols) 0xf5a1 – 0xfefe User Defined Character 1 ku – 10 ku

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/locale/extra

See Also

PCK(7)