1.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/locale/mskanji.5 131608 2004-07-05 06:39:03Z ru $ 26.\" 27.Dd August 7, 2003 28.Dt MSKANJI 5 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm mskanji 32.Nd "Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm ENCODING 35.Qq MSKanji 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for 38Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation. 39It encodes the characters from the 40.Tn JIS 41X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and 42.Tn JIS 43X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes. 44.Pp 45Characters from the 46.Tn ASCII Ns 47/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F 48(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana). 49.Pp 50Characters from the 51.Tn JIS 52X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes. 53The first ranges from 540x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not 55.Tn JIS : 56.Tn NEC Ns - Ns 57selected 58.Tn IBM 59extended characters), 600xF0 - 0xF9 (not 61.Tn JIS : 62user defined), 63or 0xFA - 0xFC (not 64.Tn JIS : 65.Tn IBM 66extended characters). 67The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete). 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr euc 5 , 70.Xr utf8 5 71