Japanese has two widths. "ｱｲｳｴｵ" (half-width) vs. "アイウエオ" (full-width). Some systems require one or the other.
: It converts input text into a specified output encoding (e.g., for UTF-8, for Shift_JIS, for EUC-JP). Line Ending Conversion nkf.exe
Is it a virus? Is it a critical system component? Why is it running on your computer? Japanese has two widths
It supports a wide range of encodings including Shift_JIS (SJIS) , EUC-JP , ISO-2022-JP (JIS) , and modern UTF-8/UTF-16 . nkf.exe reads from (stdin)
If no file is specified, nkf.exe reads from (stdin), making it ideal for piping data between commands.