1.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 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