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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. ... ISO/IEC 10646-1: ...
JIS X 0201, the Japanese version of ISO 646 containing the base 7-bit ASCII characters (with some modifications) and 64 half-width katakana characters. JIS X 0208 , the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6,355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)
Hiragana beginning with an h (or f) sound can also add a handakuten marker ( ゜) changing the h (f) to a p. For example, は (ha) becomes ぱ (pa). A small version of the hiragana for ya, yu, or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be added to hiragana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o.
Shift JIS is the third-most declared character encoding for Japanese websites, used by 1.0% of sites in the .jp domain, while UTF-8 is used by 99% of Japanese websites. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Shift JIS is also sometimes used in QR codes (they are a Japanese invention also allowing UTF-8, which may though be preferred use).
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
7-bit Roman set 7-bit Kana (shift out) set. The first half (Roman set) of JIS X 0201 constitutes a Japanese variant of ISO 646, amounting to ASCII with backslash (\) and tilde (~) replaced by yen (¥) and overline (‾), [5] while the second half (Kana set) consists mainly of katakana. Control characters are specified in JIS X 0211.
Select System on the left panel, and then select Language (Blue flag Icon) on the right panel. -A new separate window will open-On the Language window scroll down the "Secondary Languages" list and mark down "Japanese" Click the OK button on the down-right corner. -The installation of the necessary packages for Japanese language support will begin-