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A double-byte character set (DBCS) is a character encoding in which either all characters (including control characters) are encoded in two bytes, or merely every graphic character not representable by an accompanying single-byte character set is encoded in two bytes (Han characters would generally comprise most of these two-byte characters).
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.
Shift JIS is an extension of the single-byte encoding JIS X 0201:1997, that uses unassigned code points in JIS X 0201 to encode the double-byte JIS X 0208:1997 character set. The lead bytes for the double-byte characters are "shifted" around the 64 halfwidth katakana characters in the single-byte range 0xA1 to 0xDF .
IBM offer the same extended double-byte codes in their code page 943 (IBM-943 or CP943), [5] which is a combination of the single-byte Code page 897 and the double-byte Code page 941. [ 6 ] Windows-31J is the most used non- UTF-8 /Unicode Japanese encoding on the web.
In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very large number of characters. The number of characters needed in order to write in English is quite small, and thus it is possible to use only one byte (2 8 =256 possible values) to encode each ...
Although many pages only use ASCII characters to display content, very few websites now declare their encoding to only be ASCII instead of UTF-8. [29] Virtually all countries and languages have 95% or more use of UTF-8 encodings on the web. Many standards only support UTF-8, e.g. JSON exchange requires it (without a byte-order mark (BOM)). [30]
UTF-16 is often claimed to be more space-efficient than UTF-8 for East Asian languages, since it uses two bytes for characters that take 3 bytes in UTF-8. Since real text contains many spaces, numbers, punctuation, markup (for e.g. web pages), and control characters, which take only one byte in UTF-8, this is only true for artificially ...
uses circumflex ( ^ ): ê, î, û and cedilla ( ¸ ): ç, ş; the word xwe (oneself, myself, yourself etc.) appears frequently and is highly specific (xw combination) ( I, i ) is the most common letter in the language; uses eight vowels (a, e, ê, i, î, o, u, û) impossible to find a word without any vowel; has lots of compound words