What is sjis format?

Shift JIS (Shift Japanese Industrial Standards, also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by a Japanese company called ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1. UTF-8 is used by 92% of Japanese websites.

Is Shift JIS Unicode?

Shift-JIS and other encodings were used before Unicode became available/popular, since it was the only way to encode Japanese at all. Companies have invested in infrastructure that only supported Shift-JIS.

What is Big5 code?

Big-5 or Big5 is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), which uses simplified Chinese characters, uses the GB 18030 character set instead.

What is JIS code?

In computing, JIS encoding refers to several Japanese Industrial Standards for encoding the Japanese language. JIS X 0208, the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)

Which is the default encoding for Shift JIS?

So the line becomes simpler: first converts the string dat2 into a byte array in Shift_JIS encoding and then converts the byte array into a string using the default encoding (probably UTF-8), thereby decoding the byte array using the wrong encoding. One more thing.

Can a UTF-8 string encode a kanji character?

So the actual problem is, that the 3rd party library result string will encode characters like “è ò à ù ì ä ö ü.” as SHIFT_JIS (Kanji) inside an UTF-8 string. But only if the character is connected to a word and isn’t standalone.

How to use Shift JIS in a streamreader?

Assuming you’re reading the file with a StreamReader, there are various constructors that take an Encoding, so just grab a Shift-JIS encoding with Encoding.GetEncoding (“shift_jis”) or Encoding.GetEncoding (932) and use it to construct your StreamReader.

How to convert Japanese text encoding to ASCII?

Now, if I copy that string in a text editor and save it as ASCII and then open the file in a web browser and set it to automatically detect the Encoding, I get the correct string in japanese: チャネルパートナーの選択, and the page says that the detected encoding is Japanese (Shift_JIS). When I try to do the conversion in the C# code doing something like this: