Japanese Windows character encoding / Shift JIS variant
Also known as MS932 · Windows-932 · CP932 · Windows-31J · IBM-943 · shift_jis
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Microsoft Windows code page 932, also called Windows-31J amongst other names, is the Microsoft Windows code page for the Japanese language, which is an extended variant of the Shift JIS Japanese character encoding. It contains standard 7-bit ASCII codes, and Japanese characters are indicated by the high bit of the first byte being set to 1. Some code points in this page require a second byte, so characters use either 8 or 16 bits for encoding.