The table below shows the categories of two-byte characters in the Shift-JIS character set. The range values are in hexadecimal. The second byte in a Shift-JIS character may have values between hexadecimal 40 and FC, excluding 7F.
The level 1 kanji are arranged in the order of the hiragana representations of their most common on pronunciation. The level 2 and level 3 kanji are arranged in order of the stroke count of their principal radical followed by the stroke count of the remaining portion of the character.
All two-byte characters, including the Roman, Greek, and Russian characters, are twice as wide when displayed as the one-byte characters. The HTBasic CVT$ function can convert between one- two-byte Roman and katakana characters.
Note that voiced katakana and hiragana characters are represented by a single two-byte character in the shift-JIS character set while they are represented by a one-byte character plus a separate one-byte voicing mark in the ISO-932 character set.
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