Character Encoding: Shift-JIS

Technical information about character encoding standard Shift-JIS

Technical information about character encoding Shift-JIS is available below.

Name	General Shift-JIS Detailed Shift-JIS (Japanese)
Alias	SJIS
MIME / IANA	Shift_JIS
Type	1 to 2 bytes (variable-width)
Languages	Japanese
Usage	less than 0.1%

Shift-JIS is a character encoding for the Japanese language. It utilizes a variable-width, multi-byte encoding scheme.

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