Shift JIS - WikipediaShift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS), known as PCK in Solaris contexts)[2][3] is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation[b] in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1. Shift JIS is based on character sets defined within JIS standards JIS X 0201:1997 (for the single-byte characters) and JIS X 0
