Type of Assignment :
update to the shift_jis charset registration
Registry :
charset
Description :
Clarifying some of the in-practice behavioral differences of shift_jis
and its windows-31J variant. This has been reviewed by ietf-charsets for
the 2 week period.
Additional Info :
Charset name: Shift_JIS
MIBenum: 17
Charset aliases: MS_Kanji and csShiftJIS
Suitability for use in MIME text:
This charset can be used for the top-level media type “text”.
Note that this is an 8-bit charset. Care should be taken to choose an
appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.
Published specification(s): Appendix 1 of JIS X0208:1997.
ISO 10646 equivalency table:
The correspondence is defined in JIS X0208:1997, the Kanji mapping is
described in Appendix 6. Column 1 of Table 2 of Appendix 5 lists some
variation of punctuation, and the names given in Appendix 5 are
preferred to those in Appendix 4, when available.
In computer readable formats several variations exist. An obsolete
variation is available at:
This charset is an extension of csHalfWidthKatakana by adding graphic
characters in JIS X 0208. The CCS’s are JIS X0201:1997 and JIS X0208:1997.
Several vendor specific charsets that derive from shift_jis often use
the shift_jis name instead of a more specific vendor charset name.
Windows-31J is one example, Mac Japanese and Java SJIS are others. A
common variation is to convert shift_jis 0x5c to U+005c Unicode, but
display it as the Yen sign.
