KS X 1001

KS X 1001
MIME / IANAks_c_5601-1987
Alias(es)KS C 5601
Language(s)
Partial support:
StandardKS X 1001
ClassificationISO-2022-compatible DBCS, CJK encoding
Encoding formats
Preceded byN-byte Hangul code (KS C 5601-1974)
Other related encoding(s)Associated supplements: KS X 1002
Other Hangul ISO 2022 DBCSes:
Other CJK ISO 2022 DBCSes:

KS X 1001, "Code for Information Interchange (Hangul and Hanja)",[d][1] formerly called KS C 5601, is a South Korean coded character set standard to represent Hangul and Hanja characters on a computer.

KS X 1001 is encoded by the most common legacy (pre-Unicode) character encodings for Korean, including EUC-KR and Microsoft's Unified Hangul Code (UHC). It contains Korean Hangul syllables, CJK ideographs (Hanja), Greek, Cyrillic, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana) and some other characters.

KS X 1001 is arranged as a 94×94 table, following the structure of 2-byte code words in ISO 2022 and EUC. Therefore, its code points are pairs of integers 1–94. However, some encodings (UHC and Johab), in addition to providing codes for every code point, provide additional codes for characters otherwise representable only as code point sequences.


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