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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Related Server Character Set
JIS X 0208 is the basis for the KanjiSJIS server character set.