Japanese Shift-JIS Characters that Cause Problems

Japanese Shift-JIS Character Mapping - IBM Documentation

Characters that Cause Problems

The following table describes the Shift-JIS characters that can cause problems. Characters marked with an asterisk (*) are mappings that are rare and it is unlikely that you will encounter them.

Table 1. Shift-JIS characters that can cause problems in migration

JIS bytes	Shift-JIS bytes	Unicode codepoints	Description
0x5C	0x5C	U+005C u+00A5	Reverse solidus Yen sign
0x7E	0x7E	U+007E U+203E	Tilde Overline
0x2131	0x8150	U+203E* U+FFE3	Overline Full width macron
0x213D	0x815C	U+2014 U+2015	Em dash Horizontal bar
0x2140	0x815F	U+005C* U+FF3C	Reverse solidus Full width reverse solidus
0x2141	0x8160	U+301C U+FF5E	Wave dash Full width tilde
0x2142	0x8161	U+2016 U+2225	Double vertical line parallel to
0x215D	0x817C	U+2212 U+FF0D	Minus sign Full width hyphen-minus
0x216F	0x818F	U+00A5* U+FFE5	Yen sign Full width yen sign
0x2171	0x8191	U+00A2 U+FFE0	Cent sign Fullwidth cent sign
0x2172	0x8192	U+00A3 U+FFE1	Pound sign Full width pound sign
0x224C	0x81CA	U+00AC U+FFE2	Not sign Full width not sign