byte, string searches are difficult, since simple searches can match the second byte of a character and the first byte of the next, which is not a valid Shift JIS character. String-searching algorithms must be tailor-made for Shift JIS.

Compatibility

Shift JIS is fully backwards compatible with the [[JIS X 0201]] single-byte encoding, meaning that any valid JIS X 0201 string is also

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