Registration of new charset CP51932

[NARUSE Yui <naruse@airemix.jp>]

Charset name: CP51932

Charset aliases: (none)

Suitability for use in MIME text:

   Yes, CP51932 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
   Content-Type. Note that CP51932 is an multi-octet charset.
   Care should be taken to choose an appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.

Published specification(s):

   Uses ISO 2022 rules to select:
     code set 0: US-ASCII (a single 7-bit byte set)
                 * 0x5C is U+005C : REVERSE SOLIDUS (YEN SIGN)
                 * 0x7E is U+007E : TILDE
     code set 1: Microsoft Standard Character Set (a double 8-bit byte set)
                 * JIS X 0208-1983
                 * NEC special characters (Row 13)
                 * NEC selection of IBM extensions (Rows 89 to 92)
     code set 2: Halfwidth Katakana (a single 7-bit byte set)
                 JIS X 0201-1976
                 requiring SS2 as the character prefix

   Meaning and mapping to Unicode of each character is refer to
   Windows Codepage 932.
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/cc305152.aspx

ISO 10646 equivalency table:

   http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/NARUSE/Encode-EUCJPMS-0.07/ucm/cp51932.ucm

Additional information:

   This is a request for a new registration of this charset.

   CP51932 is real implementation of EUC-JP mostly used by Web Browsers.
   Internet Explorer gives a reference implementation.
   Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Google Chrome support also this.
   They refers this charset by the name "EUC-JP".
   http://coq.no/character-tables/mime/euc/en

   The name "CP51932" is in use following applications:
     * Citrus iconv (NetBSD and DragonFly uses this)
     * patched GNU libiconv in FreeBSD ports
     * Mojikan http://www.mirai-ii.co.jp/moji/mojikan/
     * nkf 2.0.5
     * PHP 5.2.1
     * Ruby 1.9.1
     * Encode-EUCJPMS-0.06

   Moreover applications which uses MLang.DLL or .NET Framework for
   converting "EUC-JP" implicitly uses this charset.

   So this charset is widely used, but doesn't have its own name.
   Intended use of this name is to override the implementation of EUC-JP
   or charset convertion.
   http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_Encodings
   http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7444

   Why the name is not "Windows-51932" is some of applications which accept
   the name "CP51932" don't support the name "Windows-51932".

   CP51932 is for use of importing legacy data.
   UTF-8 is preferred to CP51932 for new system.

   Related references are:

     "Remarks" of "GetEncodings Method" of "System.Text"
     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.getencodings.aspx

     "UnicodeによるJIS X0213実装入門―情報システムの新たな日本語処理環境"
     日経BPソフトプレス, ISBN 978-4891006082, 2008, p. 17-18, 20, 120-158

     CP51932 - Legacy Encoding Project
     http://legacy-encoding.sourceforge.jp/wiki/index.php?cp51932

   This charset is also known as Windows Codepage 51932.

Person & email address to contact for further information:

   NARUSE, Yui
   Email: naruse@airemix.jp

Intended usage: LIMITED USE

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