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19 lines
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Japanese character encodings are not very well standardized.
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There are several distinct industrial standards.
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JIS and EUC are the most common, they only use 7 bit characters and
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state-shift sequences.
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Shift-JIS (as known as Microsoft JIS) is a variant of JIS that use
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8 bit characters instead of sequences to encode state-shift. It's a
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broken scheme, as was to be expected.
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All of this does NOT incorporate seamlessly into grander schemes such
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as unicode yet...
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Nkf is a tool to convert between all the commonest japanese encodings.
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It is also able to repair documents which have lost part of their
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escape sequences.
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The niftiest feature of nkf is that it can guess input encodings, and
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usually does this right.
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