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| | [Ping] Japanese text encoding |
 | | It includes 6879 characters, among which are the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, 6355 kanji, the Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, the numerals, and a number of typographic symbols. |
 | | There are a number of Japanese character set standards, all of which are identified by a code starting with "JIS", which stands for "Japanese Industrial Standard". |
 | | The most popularly-used Japanese character set is known as JIS X 0208-1990. |
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