Shift JIS
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Shift JIS (Shift Japanese Industrial Standards, also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts)[2][3] is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation[lower-alpha 2] in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.
MIME / IANA | Shift_JIS |
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Alias(es) | MS_Kanji,[1] PCK[2][3] |
Language(s) | Primarily Japanese, but also supporting English, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek |
Standard | JIS X 0208:1997 Appendix 1 |
Classification | Extended ISO 646,[lower-alpha 1] variable-width encoding, CJK encoding |
Extends | JIS X 0201 8-bit format |
Transforms / Encodes | JIS X 0208 |
Succeeded by | Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS) Windows-31J (web) |
Shift JIS is based on character sets defined within JIS standards JIS X 0201:1997 (for the single-byte characters) and JIS X 0208:1997 (for the double-byte characters).
As of April 2024[update], 0.3% of surveyed web pages used Shift JIS (actually decoded as its superset Windows-31J encoding), a decline from 1.3% in July 2014.[4] Shift JIS is the second-most declared character encoding for Japanese websites, used by 5.2% of sites in the .jp domain, while UTF-8 is used by 94.8% of Japanese websites.[5][6]