<s>
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
is	O
a	O
Japanese	O
Industrial	O
Standard	O
defining	O
a	O
coded	O
character	O
set	O
for	O
encoding	O
supplementary	O
characters	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
Japanese	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
standard	O
is	O
intended	O
to	O
supplement	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0208	O
(	O
Code	O
page	O
952	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
standard	O
was	O
intended	O
to	O
build	O
upon	O
the	O
range	O
of	O
characters	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
main	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0208	O
character	O
set	O
,	O
and	O
to	O
address	O
shortcomings	O
in	O
the	O
coverage	O
of	O
that	O
set	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
encodings	O
or	O
encapsulations	O
are	O
used	O
to	O
enable	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
files	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
in	O
certain	O
implementations	O
of	O
the	O
ISO	O
2022-based	O
JIS	O
encoding	O
—	O
including	O
ISO-2022-JP-EXT	O
,	O
ISO-2022-JP-1	O
and	O
ISO-2022-JP-2	O
—	O
the	O
sequence	O
"	O
ESC	O
$	O
(	O
D	O
"	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
indicate	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
No	O
encapsulation	O
of	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
in	O
the	O
popular	O
Shift	O
JIS	O
encoding	O
is	O
possible	O
,	O
as	O
Shift	O
JIS	O
does	O
not	O
have	O
sufficient	O
unallocated	O
code	O
space	O
for	O
the	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
is	O
called	O
Code	B-General_Concept
page	I-General_Concept
953	I-General_Concept
by	O
IBM	O
,	O
which	O
includes	O
vendor	O
extensions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
cannot	O
be	O
encoded	O
in	O
Shift	O
JIS	O
,	O
the	O
coding	O
system	O
which	O
has	O
traditionally	O
dominated	O
Japanese	O
information	O
processing	O
,	O
few	O
practical	O
implementations	O
of	O
the	O
character	O
set	O
have	O
taken	O
place	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
in	O
the	O
early	O
1990s	O
basic	O
"	O
BDF	O
"	O
fonts	O
were	O
compiled	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
the	O
Unix	O
X	B-Operating_System
Window	I-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
;	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
Emacs	B-Application
and	O
jstevie	O
editors	O
were	O
extended	O
to	O
support	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
WWW	O
browsers	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox	O
family	O
,	O
Opera	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
and	O
related	O
applications	O
such	O
as	O
Mozilla	B-Application
Thunderbird	I-Application
support	O
the	O
display	O
of	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
in	O
EUC-JP	O
encoding	O
,	O
however	O
Internet	B-Application
Explorer	I-Application
has	O
no	O
support	O
for	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Modern	O
terminal	O
emulation	O
packages	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
GNOME	B-Language
Terminal	I-Language
also	O
support	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Applications	O
which	O
support	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
in	O
the	O
EUC	O
coding	O
include	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
WWWJDIC	B-Application
Japanese	O
dictionary	O
server	O
(	O
however	O
as	O
Internet	B-Application
Explorer	I-Application
does	O
not	O
support	O
the	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
extensions	O
in	O
EUC	O
,	O
this	O
server	O
sends	O
bit-mapped	O
graphics	O
for	O
these	O
characters	O
when	O
set	O
in	O
EUC-JP	O
mode	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
kanji	O
in	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
were	O
taken	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
sources	O
for	O
the	O
Han	O
unification	O
which	O
led	O
to	O
the	O
unified	O
set	O
of	O
CJK	O
characters	O
in	O
the	O
initial	O
ISO	O
10646/Unicode	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apart	O
from	O
the	O
applications	O
mentioned	O
above	O
,	O
the	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0212	O
standard	O
is	O
effectively	O
dead	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2,743	O
kanji	O
from	O
it	O
were	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
later	O
JIS	O
X	B-Operating_System
0213	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
