IBM
code page
In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some c ...
932 (abbreviated as IBM-932
or ambiguously as CP932) is one of IBM's extensions of
Shift JIS
Shift JIS (Shift Japanese Industrial Standards, also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by a Japanese company called ASCII Corporation in conjunct ...
. The coded character sets are
JIS X 0201
JIS X 0201, a Japanese Industrial Standard developed in 1969 (then called JIS C 6220 until the JIS category reform), was the first Japanese electronic character set to become widely used. It is either a 7-bit encoding or an 8-bit encoding, althou ...
:1976,
JIS X 0208
JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language. The official title of the curren ...
:1983,
IBM extensions and IBM extensions for IBM 1880 UDC. It is the combination of the single-byte
Code page 897 and the double-byte Code page 301.
Code page 301 is designed to encode the same repertoire as
IBM Japanese DBCS-Host.
IBM-932 resembles
IBM-943. One difference is that IBM-932 encodes the JIS X 0208:1983 characters but preserves the 1978 ordering, whereas IBM-943 uses the 1983 ordering
(i.e. the
character variant swaps made in JIS X 0208:1983). Another difference is that IBM-932 does not incorporate the NEC selected extensions, which IBM-943 includes for Microsoft compatibility.
includes the same double-byte codes as IBM-932 (those from Code page 301) but includes additional single-byte extensions.
International Components for Unicode
International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or cont ...
treats "ibm-932" and "ibm-942" as aliases for the same decoder.
IBM-932 contains 7-bit
ISO 646
ISO/IEC 646 is a set of ISO/ IEC standards, described as ''Information technology — ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange'' and developed in cooperation with ASCII at least since 1964. Since its first edition in ...
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.
Layout
See also
*
LMBCS-16
The Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (LMBCS) is a proprietary multi-byte character encoding originally conceived in 1988 at Lotus Development Corporation with input from Bob Balaban and others. Created around the same time and addressing some of the ...
*
Code page 942
*
Code page 943
References
External links
IBM Code Page 932
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932
Year 932 ( CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
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Encodings of Japanese