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Subject: Re: Need Kanji fonts
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>If my understanding is correct, (at least) the most commonly used kana
>characters are included in the standard.

Yes.  (There are only 51 kana characters of each type, so I presume
all of them are included.)

>An interesting thing is that the standard character set also includes
>English, Greek, and Cyrillic characters.

They are all double-width, as are the kana characters (2 bytes, 2
character positions).  JIS 6220 contains the half-width (1 byte, 1
character position) forms of the kana.