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∟JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

∟Shift-JIS Encoding

This section provides a quick introduction of Shift-JIS, also called MS Kanji, encoding, which maps a JIS X0208 character to a 2-byte sequence using a complicated schema designed by Microsoft.

Shift-JIS: An encoding for JIS X0208 character set. It is a 8-bit encoding with 1 to 2 bytes per character: 

Number Of   Valid Range
Bytes       Byte 1        Byte 2       

   1        0x21 - 0x7F  (for ASCII)
   1        0xA1 - 0xDF (for Katakana)
   2        0x81 - 0x9F   0x40 - 0x7E
   2        0xE0 - 0xEF   0x80 - 0xFC

Shift-JIS, also called MS Kanji, is a Microsoft standard (codepage 932). The encoding schema is not straightforward. Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS for more details.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Character Sets and Encodings

 ASCII Character Set and Encoding

 GB2312 Character Set and Encoding

 GB18030 Character Set and Encoding

►JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

 JIS X0208 Character Set for Japanese Characters

 JIS X0208 Character Code Values

 EUC-JP Encoding

 ISO-2022-JP Encoding

►Shift-JIS Encoding

 Unicode Character Set

 UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)

 UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings

 UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings

 Python Language and Unicode Characters

 Java Language and Unicode Characters

 Character Encoding in Java

 Character Set Encoding Maps

 Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files

 Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode Text Editor

 Unicode Fonts

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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