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.\" $FreeBSD$ 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