7-Bit Japanese Code Representation
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JAPANESE TEXT {ESC}$B$3$1$OF|K\81$NJ8O$G$9!#{ESC}(J
(ROMANIZED - KO RE WA NI HON GO NO BUN SHOU DE SU.
ROMAJI)
RAW CODE $3$1$OF|K\81$NJ8O$G$9!#
(no escape codes)
NEW-JIS < ESC$B$3$1$OF|K\81$NJ8O$G$9!#<ESC>(J
OLD-JIS < ESC$@$3$1$OF|K\81$NJ8O$G$9!#<ESC>(J
NEC CODE <ESCK$3$1$OF|K\81$NJ8O$G$9!#<ESC>H
Notice that two ASCII characters represent one Japanese character; hence,
Japanese characters consist of two bytes. For example, the HIRAGANA symbol
for "KO" is represented by the two ASCII characters "$" and "3".