Code page 932 (Microsoft Windows): Difference between revisions

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''This is Code Page 932 on Microsoft Windows. For the IBM code page, see [[Code Page 932]].

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'''[[Code page]] 943''' (abbreviated as '''CP943''', also known by Microsoft as '''Code Page 932''' or '''CP932''', or by the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]] under the name '''Windows-31J''') is Microsoft's extension of [[Shift JIS]] to include NEC special characters (Row 13), NEC selection of IBM extensions (Rows 89 to 92), and IBM extensions (Rows 115 to 119). The coded character sets are JIS X0201:1997, JIS X0208:1997, and these extensions. Windows-31J is often mistaken for Shift JIS: while similar, the distinction is significant for computer programmers wishing to avoid [[mojibake]], and a good reason to use the world-widely unambiguous [[UTF-8]] instead. The '''windows-31J''' name, however, is IANA's and not recognized by Microsoft, which historically has used '''shift_jis''' instead.