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18.2.1 Japanese EUC (Extended Unix Code)

This encompasses the character sets Printing-ASCII, Japanese-JISX0201, and Japanese-JISX0208-Kana (half-width katakana, the right half of JISX0201). It uses 8-bit bytes.

Note that Printing-ASCII and Japanese-JISX0201-Kana are 94-character charsets, while Japanese-JISX0208 is a 94x94-character charset.

The encoding is as follows:

Character set            Representation (PC=position-code)
-------------            --------------
Printing-ASCII           PC1
Japanese-JISX0201-Kana   0x8E       | PC1 + 0x80
Japanese-JISX0208        PC1 + 0x80 | PC2 + 0x80
Japanese-JISX0212        PC1 + 0x80 | PC2 + 0x80