JIS X 0208
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JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language. Wikipedia
Alias(es): JIS C 6226
Encoding formats: Shift JIS ("SJIS"); ISO-2022-JP ("JIS"); EUC-JP ("UJIS")
Extensions: ARIB STD B24 Kanji; NEC PC98 DBCS; JIS X 0213 plane 1
Language(s): Japanese; English; Russian; Bulgarian; Partial support:: Greek; Chinese
Standard: JIS X 0208:1978 through 1997