Asian Character Sets • cp932  supports conversion of user-defined characters in combination with  eucjpms , and solves the problems with  sjis / ujis  conversion. For details, please refer to http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/ encodings.html. 1984 Users of any Japanese character sets should be aware that using  --character-set-client- handshake  (or  --skip-character-set-client-handshake ) has an important effect. See Section 5.1.7, “Server Command Options” . Conversion from  ucs2 : Conversion to  ucs2 : For some characters, conversion to and from  ucs2  is different for  sjis  and  cp932 . The following tables illustrate these differences. sjis / cp932  Value sjis  ->  ucs2  Conversion cp932  ->  ucs2  Conversion 5C 005C 005C 7E 007E 007E 815C 2015 2015 815F 005C FF3C 8160 301C FF5E 8161 2016 2225 817C 2212 FF0D 8191 00A2 FFE0 8192 00A3 FFE1 81CA 00AC FFE2 ucs2  value ucs2  ->  sjis  Conversion ucs2  ->  cp932  Conversion 005C 815F 5C 007E 7E 7E 00A2 8191 3F 00A3 8192 3F 00AC 81CA 3F 2015 815C 815C 2016 8161 3F 2212 817C 3F 2225 3F 8161 301C 8160 3F FF0D 3F 817C FF3C 3F 815F FF5E 3F 8160 FFE0 3F 8191 FFE1 3F 8192 FFE2 3F 81CA