Shift JIS
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Shift JIS is a character encoding for the Japanese language widely used on PCs and early software systems in Japan.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese character encoding
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character encoding ⓘ character set ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
MS Kanji
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SJIS ⓘ Shift-JIS NERFINISHED ⓘ Shift_JIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
JIS X 0201
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ⓘ
JIS X 0208 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| byteStructure |
double-byte characters
ⓘ
single-byte characters ⓘ |
| characterWidthModel | variable-width encoding ⓘ |
| codePageNumber | 932 ⓘ |
| codePageOwner | Microsoft Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designGoal |
backward compatibility with JIS X 0201
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support for JIS X 0208 Kanji ⓘ |
| developedBy |
ASCII Corporation
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Microsoft ⓘ |
| encodingFamily | JIS encodings ⓘ |
| encodingFor | Japanese language ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
ambiguous byte sequences in mixed encodings
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mojibake risk when mis-decoded ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Shift_JIS-2004
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Windows-31J NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IANAName | Shift_JIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCompatibleWith | ASCII for single-byte range ⓘ |
| isNot | Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUseRegion | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| registeredWith | IANA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizedIn |
JIS X 0201
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ⓘ
JIS X 0208 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
UTF-8
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Unicode encodings ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Japanese email before Unicode adoption
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Japanese web pages before UTF-8 dominance ⓘ legacy Japanese business applications ⓘ legacy Japanese game software ⓘ |
| usesScript |
Cyrillic script
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Greek script ⓘ Half-width Katakana ⓘ Hiragana ⓘ Kanji ⓘ Katakana ⓘ Latin script ⓘ |
| wasWidelyUsedOn |
MS-DOS in Japan
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Windows in Japan ⓘ early Japanese software systems ⓘ personal computers in Japan ⓘ |
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