JIS X 0212

JIS X 0212
Language(s)Intended to be used alongside JIS X 0208 for Japanese support. Does not substantially support any language on its own.
StandardJIS X 0212:1990
Current statusUnihan source. Coded character set itself not as widely supported as JIS X 0208, but sometimes used in EUC-JP.[1]
Classification
Extensions
  • IBM code page 953
  • OSF extensions
  • JIS X 0212/0213 hybrid plane 2
Encoding formats
Succeeded byJIS X 0213
Other related encoding(s)Intended to supplement: JIS X 0208
Other supplementary ISO 2022 CJK DBCSes: KS X 1002

JIS X 0212 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining a coded character set for encoding supplementary characters for use in Japanese. This standard is intended to supplement JIS X 0208 (Code page 952). It is numbered 953 or 5049 as an IBM code page (see below).

It is one of the source standards for Unicode's CJK Unified Ideographs.

  1. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "5. Indexes (§ Index jis0212)". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.