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27.Dd August 7, 2003
28.Dt MSKANJI 5
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm mskanji
32.Nd "Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm ENCODING
35.Qq MSKanji
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
38Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation.
39It encodes the characters from the
40.Tn JIS
41X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and
42.Tn JIS
43X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
44.Pp
45Characters from the
46.Tn ASCII Ns
47/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F
48(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana).
49.Pp
50Characters from the
51.Tn JIS
52X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
53The first ranges from
540x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not
55.Tn JIS :
56.Tn NEC Ns - Ns
57selected
58.Tn IBM
59extended characters),
600xF0 - 0xF9 (not
61.Tn JIS :
62user defined),
63or 0xFA - 0xFC (not
64.Tn JIS :
65.Tn IBM
66extended characters).
67The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
68.Sh SEE ALSO
69.Xr euc 5 ,
70.Xr utf8 5