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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 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 hence Japanesethus cannot be encoded using onlya onesingle byte, and- Japanese is thus encoded using two or more bytes, in a so-called "double byte" or "multi-byte" encoding. SomeProblems problemsthat arise relate to [[transliteration]] and [[romanization]], some to character encoding, and some to the input of Japanese text.

==Character encodings==