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Japanese Ainu: Assigned: 96 code points: Unused: 0 reserved code points: Source standards: JIS X 0208: ... Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
Written Japanese uses several different scripts: kanji (Chinese characters), 2 sets of kana (phonetic syllabaries) and roman letters. While kana and roman letters can be typed directly into a computer, entering kanji is a more complicated process as there are far more kanji than there are keys on most keyboards.
In International Reference Version + 8-bit code for kanji, whether by the bit pattern 4/1 or by the bit pattern corresponding to the kanji set's row 3 cell 33 (10/3 12/1), the letter "A" (i.e. "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A") is represented. The standard forbids the use of the "10/3 12/1" bit pattern, in an attempt to eliminate the duplicate encoding.
JIS X 0201, the Japanese version of ISO 646 containing the base 7-bit ASCII characters (with some modifications) and 64 half-width katakana characters. JIS X 0208 , the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6,355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana , and many containing CJK ideographs .
As Japanese does not use word spaces (except as a tool for children), there can be no word-by-word collation; all collation is kana-by-kana. In Unicode Main articles: Hiragana (Unicode block) , Katakana (Unicode block) , Katakana Phonetic Extensions , Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block) , and Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
VJE Japanese input method for DOS. Japanese input methods are used to input Japanese characters on a computer. There are two main methods of inputting Japanese on computers. One is via a romanized version of Japanese called rÅmaji (literally "Roman character"), and the other is via keyboard keys corresponding to the Japanese kana.
Plane 1 is a superset of JIS X 0208 containing kanji sets level 1 to 3 and non-kanji characters such as Hiragana, Katakana (including letters used to write the Ainu language), Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, digits, symbols and so on. Plane 2 contains only level 4 kanji set.