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Code page 932 (IBM)
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<p>IBM <a href="/facts/Code_page/tgcBrILG">code page</a> 932 (abbreviated as IBM-932 or ambiguously as CP932) is one of IBM's extensions of <a href="/facts/Shift_JIS/9j7nb3fr">Shift JIS</a>. The coded character sets are <a href="/facts/JIS_X_0201/JEICqrnA">JIS X 0201</a>:1976, <a href="/facts/JIS_X_0208/c74FolNC">JIS X 0208</a>:1983, IBM extensions and IBM extensions for IBM 1880 UDC. It is the combination of the single-byte <a href="/facts/Code_page_897/w7ke8H0D">Code page 897</a> and the double-byte Code page 301. Code page 301 is designed to encode the same repertoire as <a href="/facts/Japanese_language_in_EBCDIC/AgxeJdoI">IBM Japanese DBCS-Host</a>. </p><p>IBM-932 resembles <a href="/facts/Code_page_943/XcwTNKIc">IBM-943</a>. One difference is that IBM-932 encodes the JIS X 0208:1983 characters but preserves the 1978 ordering, whereas IBM-943 uses the 1983 ordering (i.e. the <a href="/facts/JIS_X_0208/c74FolNC">character variant swaps made in JIS X 0208:1983</a>). Another difference is that IBM-932 does not incorporate the NEC selected extensions, which IBM-943 includes for Microsoft compatibility. </p><p><a href="/facts/Code_page_942/5dsQ7R05">IBM-942</a> includes the same double-byte codes as IBM-932 (those from Code page 301) but includes additional single-byte extensions. <a href="/facts/International_Components_for_Unicode/SVyD2Yr5">International Components for Unicode</a> treats "ibm-932" and "ibm-942" as aliases for the same decoder. </p><p>IBM-932 contains 7-bit <a href="/facts/ISO_646/7CdXUnTs">ISO 646</a> codes, and Japanese characters are indicated by the high bit of the first byte being set to 1. Some code points in this page require a second byte, so characters use either 8 or 16 bits for encoding. </p>