The KANJISJIS server character set is designed for Japanese applications that rely on the semantics of KanjiSJIS for characteristics such as string length and physical space allocation.
KANJISJIS is a canonical character set. Data stored as KANJISJIS can be shared among heterogeneous clients.
KANJISJIS supports all client character sets, but is designed specifically for Japanese data.
KANJISJIS character set limitations:
- Storage space for this server character set is allocated on a byte basis rather than a character basis. Therefore, the maximum number of characters varies depending on the number of bytes required for the characters being stored.
- KANJISJIS supports characters from the JIS X 0201 and JIS X 0208 standards. Each character from the JIS X 0201 standard requires one byte, and each character from the JIS X 0208 standard requires two bytes in KANJISJIS.
- SQL string manipulations of KANJISJIS data operate on a logical character basis and are performed by means of temporary conversion to Unicode. For this reason, KANJISJIS strings are limited to 32000 characters.