Shift JIS

Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by a Japanese company called ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.

Read more about Shift JIS:  Description, Multiple Versions, Shift JIS Byte Map

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