Chapter 4. Coded Character Sets And Encodings in the World

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4.3.3 ISO 2022 compliant Encodings

There are many ISO 2022 compliant encodings which are subsets of ISO 2022.

Compound Text This is used for X clients to communicate each other, for example, copy paste.

EUC JP An EUC encoding with ASCII, JISX 0208, JISX 0201 Kana, and JISX 0212 coded character

sets. There are many systems which does not support JISX 0201 Kana and JISX 0212. Widely

used in Japan for POSIX systems.

EUC KR An EUC encoding with ASCII and KSX 1001.

CN GB (aka EUC CN) An EUC encoding with ASCII and GB 2312. The most popular encoding

in R. P. China. This encoding is sometimes referred as simply 'GB'.

EUC TW An extended EUC encoding with ASCII, CNS 11643 plain 1, and other (2 7) plains of

CNS 11643.

ISO 2022 JP Described in. RFC 1468 (

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1468.html

).

***** Not written yet *****

ISO 2022 JP 1 (upward compatible to ISO 2022 JP) Described in RFC 2237 (

http://www.faqs.

org/rfcs/rfc2237.html

).

***** Not written yet *****

ISO 2022 JP 2 (upward compatible to ISO 2022 JP 1) Described in RFC 1554 (

http://www.faqs.

org/rfcs/rfc1554.html

).

***** Not written yet *****

ISO 2022 KR aka Wansung. Described in RFC 1557 (

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1557.

html

).

***** Not written yet *****

ISO 2022 CN Described in RFC RFC 1922 (

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1922.html

).

***** Not written yet *****

Non ISO 2022 compliant encodings are introduced later in `Other Character Sets and Encodings'

on page

31

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