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  1. To generate or modify mapping headers
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  3. Mapping headers are generated from Tools/unicode/genmap_*.py
  4. Notes on implementation characteristics of each codecs
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  6. 1) Big5 codec
  7. The big5 codec maps the following characters as cp950 does rather
  8. than conforming Unicode.org's that maps to 0xFFFD.
  9. BIG5 Unicode Description
  10. 0xA15A 0x2574 SPACING UNDERSCORE
  11. 0xA1C3 0xFFE3 SPACING HEAVY OVERSCORE
  12. 0xA1C5 0x02CD SPACING HEAVY UNDERSCORE
  13. 0xA1FE 0xFF0F LT DIAG UP RIGHT TO LOW LEFT
  14. 0xA240 0xFF3C LT DIAG UP LEFT TO LOW RIGHT
  15. 0xA2CC 0x5341 HANGZHOU NUMERAL TEN
  16. 0xA2CE 0x5345 HANGZHOU NUMERAL THIRTY
  17. Because unicode 0x5341, 0x5345, 0xFF0F, 0xFF3C is mapped to another
  18. big5 codes already, a roundtrip compatibility is not guaranteed for
  19. them.
  20. 2) cp932 codec
  21. To conform to Windows's real mapping, cp932 codec maps the following
  22. codepoints in addition of the official cp932 mapping.
  23. CP932 Unicode Description
  24. 0x80 0x80 UNDEFINED
  25. 0xA0 0xF8F0 UNDEFINED
  26. 0xFD 0xF8F1 UNDEFINED
  27. 0xFE 0xF8F2 UNDEFINED
  28. 0xFF 0xF8F3 UNDEFINED
  29. 3) euc-jisx0213 codec
  30. The euc-jisx0213 codec maps JIS X 0213 Plane 1 code 0x2140 into
  31. unicode U+FF3C instead of U+005C as on unicode.org's mapping.
  32. Because euc-jisx0213 has REVERSE SOLIDUS on 0x5c already and A140
  33. is shown as a full width character, mapping to U+FF3C can make
  34. more sense.
  35. The euc-jisx0213 codec is enabled to decode JIS X 0212 codes on
  36. codeset 2. Because JIS X 0212 and JIS X 0213 Plane 2 don't have
  37. overlapped by each other, it doesn't bother standard conformations
  38. (and JIS X 0213 Plane 2 is intended to use so.) On encoding
  39. sessions, the codec will try to encode kanji characters in this
  40. order:
  41. JIS X 0213 Plane 1 -> JIS X 0213 Plane 2 -> JIS X 0212
  42. 4) euc-jp codec
  43. The euc-jp codec is a compatibility instance on these points:
  44. - U+FF3C FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS is mapped to EUC-JP A1C0 (vice versa)
  45. - U+00A5 YEN SIGN is mapped to EUC-JP 0x5c. (one way)
  46. - U+203E OVERLINE is mapped to EUC-JP 0x7e. (one way)
  47. 5) shift-jis codec
  48. The shift-jis codec is mapping 0x20-0x7e area to U+20-U+7E directly
  49. instead of using JIS X 0201 for compatibility. The differences are:
  50. - U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS is mapped to SHIFT-JIS 0x5c.
  51. - U+007E TILDE is mapped to SHIFT-JIS 0x7e.
  52. - U+FF3C FULL-WIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS is mapped to SHIFT-JIS 815f.