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SHIFT-JIS ascii support

I want a clarification about SHIFT-JIS characters set. Is ASCII a subset of SHIFT-JIS character set similar to UTF-8. If a file has mix of SHIFT-JIS and ASCII. how can we read the same using QT codecs?

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  • Is ASCII a subset of SHIFT-JIS character set similar to UTF-8

    No: the backslash (0x5C) is missing from SHIFT-JIS and being replaced by a Yen currency symbol.

    If a file has mix of SHIFT-JIS and ASCII. how can we read the same using QT codecs.?

    By using QTextCodec do properly decode the various pieces; however, detecting how each part is encoded is up to you...