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Character Encoding: Shift-JIS

Technical information about character encoding standard Shift-JIS

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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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