JIS X 0208, the Japanese Industrial Standard Code for Japanese Graphic Set for Information Exchange, is the Japanese multibyte Kanji standard.
JIS X 0208 has three components.
Component | Contents |
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JIS non-Kanji | Multibyte versions of Latin letters, Katakana, Hiragana, Cyrillic letters, Greek letters, and other special non-Kanji characters, like punctuation characters, and so on |
JIS I Kanji | Commonly used Kanji characters |
JIS II Kanji | Less commonly used Kanji characters |