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JIS X 0208
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<p>JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte <a href="/facts/Character_set/ShJHIMoA">character set</a> specified as a <a href="/facts/Japanese_Industrial_Standards/qLrjj90V">Japanese Industrial Standard</a>, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the <a href="/facts/Japanese_language/EEv485a5">Japanese language</a>. The official title of the current standard is 7-bit and 8-bit double byte coded KANJI sets for information interchange (7ビット及び8ビットの2バイト情報交換用符号化漢字集合, <i>Nana-Bitto Oyobi Hachi-Bitto no Ni-Baito Jōhō Kōkan'yō Fugōka Kanji Shūgō</i>). It was originally established as JIS C 6226 in 1978, and has been revised in 1983, 1990, and 1997. It is also called Code page 952 by IBM. The 1978 version is also called Code page 955 by IBM. </p>