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[[File:KB_Japanese.svg|thumb|A Japanese kana keyboard]]

In relation to the '''Japanese language and computers''' many adaptation issues arise, some unique to [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and others common to [[language]]s which have a very large number of characters. The number of characters needed in order to write in 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 muchmany 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.

==Character encodings==