Extensions to Character Encoding Conversion
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In previous versions, characters not defined in the JIS-1 and JIS-2 standards were handled as external characters, and registering these characters to the external character table took some time. In addition, conversion of commonly used characters such as "○" or "（株）" within Unicode encodings (such as from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and vice versa) required the use of an external character table to complete the encoding conversion.
From DataMagic Ver.3 onward, if any of the following encodings is specified as the kanji character encoding for data processing information, you can choose whether to convert characters that are not defined in the JIS-1 or JIS-2 standards:
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Shift JIS
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IBM kanji
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UTF-8
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UTF-16
You can now select whether to convert characters other than those defined in the JIS-1 and JIS-2 standards. Due to this enhancement, you no longer need to register commonly used characters such as "○" or " （株）" to an external character table.
By selecting the checkbox for Convert characters other than of JIS Level 1 or JIS Level 2 as well in the Code conversion tab of the Input Settings screen and the Output Settings screen, kanji characters from JIS level 3 and level 4 can also be converted.
Therefore, as you can now convert the additional characters in JIS2004 without using an external character table, in DataMagic Ver.3 and later, a template file for additional characters in JIS2004 is not provided.