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Shift-JIS
Shift_JIS (SJIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language developed by Microsoft. As the name implies, it is based on the ISO-2022-JP (JIS) encoding, but with most byte values shifted to accommodate an additional 64 katakana characters in the range 0xA0 to 0xDF. Unlike JIS, Shift_JIS requires an 8-bit medium for transmission. However, unlike competing 8-bit format EUC, Shift_JIS only guarantees that the first byte will be in the upper ASCII range; the value of the second byte can be either high or low. This makes reliable Shift_JIS detection difficult. For a double-byte JIS sequence j1j2, the transformation to the corresponding Shift_JIS bytes s1s2 is: Shift_JIS retains a niche especially in Japanese web pages. External link
ja:Shift_JIS
Categories: Character sets | Computer terminology
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