mskanji(5) BSD File Formats Manual mskanji(5)
NAME
mskanji -- Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text
SYNOPSIS
ENCODING "MSKanji"
DESCRIPTION
Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation. It encodes the
characters from the JIS X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and JIS X 0208
(Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
Characters from the ASCII/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single
bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F (ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width
katakana).
Characters from the JIS X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
The first ranges from 0x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not JIS:
NEC-selected IBM extended characters), 0xF0 - 0xF9 (not JIS: user
defined), or 0xFA - 0xFC (not JIS: IBM extended characters). The second
byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
SEE ALSO
euc(5), utf8(5)
BSD August 7, 2003 BSD
Mac OS X 10.8 - Generated Sat Sep 1 13:55:51 CDT 2012