Editing Shift JIS (section)

== Usage ==
HTML written in Shift JIS can still be interpreted to some extent when incorrectly tagged as ASCII, and when the charset tag is in the top of the document itself, since the important start and end of HTML tags and fields (<code>&lt;</code>, <code>&gt;</code>, <code>/</code>, <code>"</code>, <code>&</code>, <code>;</code>) are encoded as the same bytes as in ASCII, and those bytes do not appear in two-byte sequences.

Shift JIS can be used in [[string literal]]s in programming languages such as [[C (programming language)|C]], but a few things must be taken into consideration. Firstly, that the [[escape character]] 0x5C, normally [[backslash]], is the [[halfwidth and fullwidth forms|half-width]] [[yen sign]] (¥) in Shift JIS. If the programmer is aware of this, it would be possible to use <code>printf("ハローワールド¥n");</code> (where ハローワールド is [["Hello, world!" program|Hello, world]] and ¥n is an escape sequence), assuming the I/O system supports {{nowrap|Shift JIS}} output. Secondly, the 0x5C byte will cause problems when it appears as second byte of a two-byte character, because it will be interpreted as an escape sequence, which will mess up the interpretation, unless followed by another 0x5C.