RE: Fun with UDCs in Shift-JIS

From: Addison Phillips [wM] (aphillips@webmethods.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 11:58:22 EST


According to Lunde (p. 205), the range is through F9FC. There are real characters in the range FA40 -> FC4B, at least in CP932, which may be causing you some confusion, since these have concrete mappings to Unicode (not just a mapping in the U+E000 range).

Best Regards,

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On Behalf Of Lars Marius Garshol
> Sent: 2002年1月17日 7:02
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Fun with UDCs in Shift-JIS
>
>
>
> I've just discovered that it seems that Shift-JIS encodes a number of
> User-Defined Characters in the 0xF040 to 0xFCFC range, and that these
> characters are used in web pages. Does anyone know of a source of
> mappings for these characters, or even have information about what
> kinds of characters are found in this area?
>
> Google searches found a number of mentions of this, and even one
> mapping, but none of them seemed to be usable.
>
> Also, does anyone know of a Shift-JIS web page that uses one of these
> characters?
>
> --Lars M.
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