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Encodings

JIS standards

JIS standards, in chronological order:

  • JIS X 0201
  • JIS X 0208-1978
  • JIS X 0208-1983
  • JIS X 0208-1990
  • JIS X 0212-1990
  • JIS X 0208-1997
  • JIS X 0213-2000

    • JIS kanji

  • KUTEN
  • JIS level 1 kanji
  • JIS level 2 kanji
  • JIS level 3 kanji
  • JIS level 4 kanji

    • Fonts

  • JIS X 9051 - 16 x 16 bitmap font
  • JIS X 9052 - 24 x 24 bitmap font
  • Downloadable fonts

    • Encodings of the JIS standards

  • EUC-JP
  • ISO-2022-JP
  • Shift-JIS

    • Other encodings

  • Unicode
  • UTF-8

    • Encoding problems

  • mojibake

    • Links

  • A complete introduction to Japanese encodings by Alexandre Elias contains a lot of useful information.
  • Cyberlibrarian on the various encodings (in Japanese) has lots of detailed tables.