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25.Dd August 7, 2003
26.Dt MSKANJI 5
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm mskanji
30.Nd "Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text"
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Nm ENCODING
33.Qq MSKanji
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
36Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation.
37It encodes the characters from the
38.Tn JIS
39X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and
40.Tn JIS
41X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
42.Pp
43Characters from the
44.Tn ASCII Ns
45/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F
46(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana).
47.Pp
48Characters from the
49.Tn JIS
50X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
51The first ranges from
520x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not
53.Tn JIS :
54.Tn NEC Ns - Ns
55selected
56.Tn IBM
57extended characters),
580xF0 - 0xF9 (not
59.Tn JIS :
60user defined),
61or 0xFA - 0xFC (not
62.Tn JIS :
63.Tn IBM
64extended characters).
65The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
66.Sh SEE ALSO
67.Xr euc 5 ,
68.Xr utf8 5
69