Code page 932 (Microsoft Windows): Difference between revisions

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'''Microsoft Windows code page 932''' (abbreviated '''MS932''',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27851 | title=Bug 27851 - Add MS932 as a label of Shift_JIS | work=w3.org Bug Tracker | author=Sivonen, Henri}}</ref><ref name="icuwindows31j" /> '''Windows-932'''<ref name="icuwindows31j">{{cite web | url=http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/convexp?conv=ibm-943_P15A-2003&s=UTR22&s=IBM&s=WINDOWS&s=JAVA&s=IANA&s=MIME&s=- | title=Converter Explorer: ibm-943_P15A-2003 (alias windows-31j) | work=International Components for Unicode: ICU Demonstration}}</ref> or ambiguously '''CP932'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch11.en.html|title=Chapter 11. Data conversion|work=Debian Reference|last=Aoki|first=Osamu|publisher=Debian}}</ref>), also called '''Windows-31J''' amongst other names (see [[#Terminology|§ Terminology]] below), is the [[Microsoft Windows]] [[code page]] for the [[Japanese language]], which is an extended variant of the [[Shift JIS]] Japanese [[character encoding]]. It contains standard 7-bit [[ASCII]] codes, and Japanese characters are indicated by the high bit of the first byte being set to 1. Some code points in this page require a second byte, so characters use either 8 or 16 bits for encoding.

IBM offer the same extended double-byte codes in their '''[[code page]] 943''' ('''IBM-943''' or '''CP943'''),<ref name="ibm932v943">{{cite web | url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.nlsgdrf/ibm-943_ibm-932.htm | title=IBM-943 and IBM-932 | publisher=IBM | work=IBM Knowledge Center}}</ref> which is a combination of the single-byte [[Code page 897]] and the double-byte '''Code page 941'''.<ref name="ibm943">{{cite web | url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid943.html | title=Code Page 943 | publisher=IBM}}</ref>