KSC and UHC

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• KS C 5601-1987 (Wansung)
  • EUC-KR
  • ISO-2022-KR
• Unified Hangul Code (Extended Wansung)
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KS C 5601-1987

A 94x94 character set for Korean, aka. Wansung.  KS stands for Korean Standard.  Microsoft uses KS C 5601-1987 in the sense of  Unified Hangul Code.

KS C 5601-1987 has the following encoding forms:

• EUC-KR (default)
• ISO-2022-KR

EUC-KR

Extended Unix Code for Korean.  An 8-bit encoding form, the default encoding of  KS C 5601-1987.

Byte-ranges for

     single-byte ASCII:  0x21-0x7E
     double-byte KSC:    0xA1-0xFE

Test your browser by selecting Korean in View : Character Coding, or View : Encoding.  The text in the right column should match the GIF in the left column.  Click here if it does not.

GIF	Text
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Unified Hangul Code

UHC or Extended Wansung is a superset of  KS C 5601-1987, incorporating all the Hangul characters of Johab.  It has an 8-bit encoding form with the following byte-ranges:

     Single-byte ASCII:       0x21-0x7E
     UHC first byte range:    0x81-0xFE
     UHC second byte ranges:  0x41-0x5A, 0x61-0x7A, 0x81-0xFE