- JIS X 0201
JIS X 0201, a Japanese Industrial Standard developed in 1969 (then called JIS C 6220 until the JIS category reform), was the first Japanese
character encoding to become widely used. It is either 7-bit encoding or 8-bit encoding, although 8-bit encoding is dominant for modern use.For 7-bit encoding, it is 128 potential codes where two 96
graphic character sets selected withShift Out and Shift In characters . For 8-bit encoding, it yields 256 potential codes combining two graphic character sets. The first 96 codes comprise a Japanese variant of ISO 646, orASCII withbackslash () andtilde (~) replaced byyen (¥) and overline (¯), while the second 96 codes consist mainly ofkatakana .Control character s are specified inJIS X 0211 . Note that this standard does not define any means to encodekanji .JIS X 0201 was supplanted by subsequent encodings such as
Shift JIS (which combines this standard andJIS X 0208 ) and laterUnicode .The substitution of the yen symbol for backslash can make paths on
DOS and Windows-based computers with Japanese support display strangely, like "C:¥Program Files¥", for example. Another similar problem isC programming language 's control characters of string literals.Encoded katakana
This table shows the second half of character set of 8-bit encoding.
External links
* [http://www.cqpub.co.jp/interface/toku/2002/200212/img/zu5.gifJIS X 0201 diagram]
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