Japanese language and computers | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 21/01/2019

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00:00:52 1 Character encodings
00:05:45 2 Text input
00:07:57 3 Direction of text
00:08:51 4 See also



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In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very large number of characters. The number of characters needed in order to write English is very small, and thus it is possible to use only one byte (28=256 possible values) to encode one English character. However, the number of characters in Japanese is much more than 256 and thus cannot be encoded using a single byte - Japanese is thus encoded using two or more bytes, in a so-called "double byte" or "multi-byte" encoding. Problems that arise relate to transliteration and  romanization, character encoding, and input of Japanese text.