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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd August 7, 2003
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.Dt MSKANJI 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mskanji
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.Nd "Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm ENCODING
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.Qq MSKanji
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
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Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation.
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It encodes the characters from the
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.Tn JIS
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X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and
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.Tn JIS
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X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
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.Pp
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Characters from the
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.Tn ASCII Ns
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/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F
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(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana).
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.Pp
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Characters from the
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.Tn JIS
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X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
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The first ranges from
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0x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not
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.Tn JIS :
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.Tn NEC Ns - Ns
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selected
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.Tn IBM
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extended characters),
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0xF0 - 0xF9 (not
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.Tn JIS :
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user defined),
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or 0xFA - 0xFC (not
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.Tn JIS :
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.Tn IBM
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extended characters).
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The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr euc 5 ,
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.Xr utf8 5
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