66.6.7 Big5 and Shift-JIS Functions

These are special functions for working with the non-standard Shift-JIS and Big5 encodings.

Function: decode-shift-jis-char code

This function decodes a JIS X 0208 character of Shift-JIS coding-system. code is the character code in Shift-JIS as a cons of type bytes. The corresponding character is returned.

Function: encode-shift-jis-char character

This function encodes a JIS X 0208 character character to SHIFT-JIS coding-system. The corresponding character code in SHIFT-JIS is returned as a cons of two bytes.

Function: decode-big5-char code

This function decodes a Big5 character code of BIG5 coding-system. code is the character code in BIG5. The corresponding character is returned.

Function: encode-big5-char character

This function encodes the Big5 character character to BIG5 coding-system. The corresponding character code in Big5 is returned.