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I want to know what very specific languages the encoding EUC-JP actually cover?
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EUC-JP was, of course, designed for Japanese, so includes all the essential Japanese characters:
But it supports Western scripts as well:
7/256 of Miscellaneous Symbols
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So you could use EUC-JP to write not only Japanese, but also English, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Russian, etc. (but not Arabic or Hebrew).
It's hard to answer the question of exactly which languages are "supported" because of ambiguities about exactly which characters are required for a language (e.g., Does Dutch need the IJ ligature, or is "IJ" adequate? Are "café" and "jalapeño" English words?)
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Reputation: 359986
Short answer: Japanese.
Longer answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Unix_Code#EUC-JP
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