JIS X 0201

JIS X 0201, a Japanese Industrial Standard developed in 1969 (then called JIS C 6220 until the JIS category reform), was the first Japanese electronic character set to become widely used. It is either 7-bit encoding or 8-bit encoding, although 8-bit encoding is dominant for modern use. The full name of this standard is 7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets for information interchange (7ビット及び8ビットの情報交換用符号化文字集合).

The first 96 codes comprise an ASCII variant, while the second 96 character codes represent the phonetic Japanese katakana signs. Since the encoding does not provide any way to express hiragana or kanji, it is only capable of expressing simplified written Japanese. Nevertheless, it is possible to express, at least phonetically, the full range of sounds in the language. In the 1980s, this was acceptable for media such as text mode computer terminals, telegrams, receipts or other electronically handled data.

JIS X 0201 was supplanted by subsequent encodings such as Shift JIS (which combines this standard and JIS X 0208) and later Unicode.

Implementation details

The first 96 codes in JIS comprise a Japanese variant of ISO 646, or ASCII with backslash (\) and tilde (~) replaced by yen (¥) and overline (‾), while the second 96 codes consist mainly of katakana. Control characters are specified in JIS X 0211.

The substitution of the yen symbol for backslash can make paths on DOS and Windows-based computers with Japanese support display strangely, like "C:¥Program Files¥", for example. Another similar problem is C programming language's control characters of string literals, like printf("Hello, world.¥n");.

Codepage layout

JIS X 0201
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
 
0_
 
 
1_
 
 
2_
 
SP
0020
32
!
0021
33
"
0022
34
#
0023
35
$
0024
36
%
0025
37
&
0026
38
'
0027
39
(
0028
40
)
0029
41
*
002A
42
+
002B
43
,
002C
44
-
002D
45
.
002E
46
/
002F
47
 
3_
 
0
0030
48
1
0031
49
2
0032
50
3
0033
51
4
0034
52
5
0035
53
6
0036
54
7
0037
55
8
0038
56
9
0039
57
:
003A
58
;
003B
59
<
003C
60
=
003D
61
>
003E
62
?
003F
63
 
4_
 
@
0040
64
A
0041
65
B
0042
66
C
0043
67
D
0044
68
E
0045
69
F
0046
70
G
0047
71
H
0048
72
I
0049
73
J
004A
74
K
004B
75
L
004C
76
M
004D
77
N
004E
78
O
004F
79
 
5_
 
P
0050
80
Q
0051
81
R
0052
82
S
0053
83
T
0054
84
U
0055
85
V
0056
86
W
0057
87
X
0058
88
Y
0059
89
Z
005A
90
[
005B
91
¥
00A5
92
]
005D
93
^
005E
94
_
005F
95
 
6_
 
`
0060
96
a
0061
97
b
0062
98
c
0063
99
d
0064
100
e
0065
101
f
0066
102
g
0067
103
h
0068
104
i
0069
105
j
006A
106
k
006B
107
l
006C
108
m
006D
109
n
006E
110
o
006F
111
 
7_
 
p
0070
112
q
0071
113
r
0072
114
s
0073
115
t
0074
116
u
0075
117
v
0076
118
w
0077
119
x
0078
120
y
0079
121
z
007A
122
{
007B
123
|
007C
124
}
007D
125

203E
126
 
8_
 
 
9_
 
 
A_
 

FF61
161

FF62
162

FF63
163

FF64
164

FF65
165

FF66
166

FF67
167

FF68
168

FF69
169

FF6A
170

FF6B
171

FF6C
172

FF6D
173

FF6E
174

FF6F
175
 
B_
 

FF70
176

FF71
177

FF72
178

FF73
179

FF74
180

FF75
181

FF76
182

FF77
183

FF78
184

FF79
185

FF7A
186

FF7B
187

FF7C
188

FF7D
189

FF7E
190
ソ
FF7F
191
 
C_
 

FF80
192

FF81
193

FF82
194

FF83
195

FF84
196

FF85
197

FF86
198

FF87
199

FF88
200

FF89
201

FF8A
202

FF8B
203

FF8C
204

FF8D
205

FF8E
206

FF8F
207
 
D_
 

FF90
208

FF91
209

FF92
210

FF93
211

FF94
212

FF95
213

FF96
214

FF97
215

FF98
216

FF99
217

FF9A
218

FF9B
219

FF9C
220

FF9D
221

FF9E
222

FF9F
223
 
E_
 
 
F_
 
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F

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