JIS X 0211, originally designated JIS C 6323 is a

Japanese Industrial Standard are the standards used for industrial activities in Japan, coordinated by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) and published by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA). The JISC is composed of many nationwide committees and play ...

defining

C0 and C1 control codes The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII. The codes represent additional information about the text, such as the position of a cursor, ...

and control sequences. It was first established in 1986, with subsequent editions in 1991 and 1994. It defines C0 and C1 control characters for use with other JIS coded character sets, e.g.

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, altho ...

and

JIS X 0208 JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standards, Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language. Th ...

. It is a derivative of

ISO/IEC 6429 ISO/IEC JTC 1, entitled "Information technology", is a joint technical committee (JTC) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its purpose is to develop, maintain and p ...

(ECMA-48); however, it doesn't feature all control functions presently listed by ISO/IEC 6429. It is distinct from the now-withdrawn JIS X 0207 (JIS C 6225), an earlier JIS standard for control codes which was established in 1979, which used a different syntax for control sequences.

Codepage layout

References

ASH multimedia lab JIS X 0211 page
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