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JIS-Roman

JIS-Roman is the Japanese equivalent of the ASCII character set. There are three differences:

'''|''' (bar)
Hexadecimal ASCII JIS-Roman
5C \ (backslash) ¥ (yen sign)
7C ~ (tilde) ¯ (overbar)
7E ¦ (broken bar)

JIS-Roman is part of JIS X 0201.

References

  • Understanding Japanese Information Processing