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25.\" $FreeBSD$
26.Dd August 7, 2003
27.Dt MSKANJI 5
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm mskanji
31.Nd "Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text"
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm ENCODING
34.Qq MSKanji
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
37Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation.
38It encodes the characters from the
39.Tn JIS
40X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and
41.Tn JIS
42X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
43.Pp
44Characters from the
45.Tn ASCII Ns
46/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F
47(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana).
48.Pp
49Characters from the
50.Tn JIS
51X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
52The first ranges from
530x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not
54.Tn JIS Ns :
55.Tn NEC Ns - Ns
56selected
57.Tn IBM
58extended characters),
590xF0 - 0xF9 (not
60.Tn JIS Ns :
61user defined),
62or 0xFA - 0xFC (not
63.Tn JIS Ns :
64.Tn IBM
65extended characters).
66The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr euc 5 ,
69.Xr utf8 5
70