Japanese Shift-JIS Character Mapping - IBM Documentation
Characters that Cause Problems
The following table describes the Shift-JIS characters that can cause problems. Characters marked with an asterisk (*) are mappings that are rare and it is unlikely that you will encounter them.
|
JIS bytes |
Shift-JIS bytes |
Unicode codepoints |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
0x5C |
0x5C |
U+005C u+00A5 |
Reverse solidus Yen sign |
|
0x7E |
0x7E |
U+007E U+203E |
Tilde Overline |
|
0x2131 |
0x8150 |
U+203E* U+FFE3 |
Overline Full width macron |
|
0x213D |
0x815C |
U+2014 U+2015 |
Em dash Horizontal bar |
|
0x2140 |
0x815F |
U+005C* U+FF3C |
Reverse solidus Full width reverse solidus |
|
0x2141 |
0x8160 |
U+301C U+FF5E |
Wave dash Full width tilde |
|
0x2142 |
0x8161 |
U+2016 U+2225 |
Double vertical line parallel to |
|
0x215D |
0x817C |
U+2212 U+FF0D |
Minus sign Full width hyphen-minus |
|
0x216F |
0x818F |
U+00A5* U+FFE5 |
Yen sign Full width yen sign |
|
0x2171 |
0x8191 |
U+00A2 U+FFE0 |
Cent sign Fullwidth cent sign |
|
0x2172 |
0x8192 |
U+00A3 U+FFE1 |
Pound sign Full width pound sign |
|
0x224C |
0x81CA |
U+00AC U+FFE2 |
Not sign Full width not sign |