sdeckanji(5) — Macro Packages and Conventions
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 encoding, 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 Characters | Code Range |
| 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.
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.
For printers, the operating system supports only printer-resident fonts. Dynamic loading of fonts to the printer is not supported for Super DEC Kanji. For general information on printing non-English text, refer to i18n_printing(5).
SEE ALSO
Commands: locale(1)
Others: ascii(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)