Shift-JIS (MS-Kanji)
Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) is a widely-used encoding of
JIS.
It uses the following 1- or 2-byte encoding:
- left half of JIS X0201-1976 (JIS-Roman)
- 00-FF
- right half of JIS X0201-1976 (katakana)
- A1-DF
- JIS X0208-1990 rows 01-62 (odd)
- 81-9F 40-9E (except 7F)
- JIS X0208-1990 rows 01-62 (even)
- 81-9F 9F-FC
- JIS X0208-1990 rows 63-94 (odd)
- E0-EF 40-9E (except 7F)
- JIS X0208-1990 rows 63-94 (even)
- E0-EF 9F-FC
This arrangement arose because JIS X0201-1976
was used first, and the
2-byte set was squeezed in later as a backward-compatible extension.
Part of Notes on CJK Character Codes and Encodings.