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