mskanji(5)

NAME

mskanji - Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text

SYNOPSIS

ENCODING "MSKanji"

DESCRIPTION

Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding

system for
Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation. It

encodes the
characters from the JIS X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and JIS X

0208
(Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two

bytes.

Characters from the ASCII/JIS-Roman character set are encod

ed as single
bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F (ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half

width
katakana).

Characters from the JIS X 0208 character set are encoded as

two bytes.
The first ranges from 0x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE

(not JIS:
NEC-selected IBM extended characters), 0xF0 - 0xF9 (not JIS:

user
defined), or 0xFA - 0xFC (not JIS: IBM extended characters).

The second
byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).

SEE ALSO

euc(5), utf8(5)

BSD August 7, 2003

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