Enabling SHIFT-JIS

By default, support for the character encoding for the Japanese language, Shift-JIS, is not available on Ubuntu and on RedHat OS version 8 or later.

You need to generate the Shift JIS locale on your machine to be able to execute Shift-JIS applications on these platforms. You can do this as follows:

On RedHat 8, ensure that the glibc-locale-source package is installed.
Execute the following command with superuser rights in order to generate a Shift-JIS locale using the charset:
```
sudo localedef -f SHIFT_JIS -i ja_JP ja_JP.sjis
```
Set the COBUTF8 environment variable to the generated Shift-SJIS locale and LANG to a UTF8 locale:
```
export COBUTF8=ja_JP.sjis
export LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
```
Run the cobutf8 utility:
```
cobutf8 <command>
```
See your product documentation for more details about cobutf8.