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Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 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?
Presumably the "NT 4.0" mapping at <http://www.autumn.org/etc/unidif.html>
(in Japanese, but the table is readable by non-Japanese-speakers).
That mapping is a superset of CP932
(<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT>),
with additional mappings from 0xF040..0xF9FC to U+E000..E757, from
0x80 to U+0080 (why?), and from the other 4 reserved single-byte codes
to U+F8F0..F8F3.
> 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?
I wouldn't know, but the private use codes can't be assumed to mean
anything in particular, regardless of what charset they start out as.
Such pages are broken, and should be using NCRs or images instead.
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