KS X 1002 | |
Alias: | KS C 5657 |
Standard: | KS X 1002 |
Lang: | Intended to be used alongside KS X 1001 for Korean support. Does not substantially support any language on its own. |
Status: | Unihan source. Not usually encoded directly. |
Encodings: | Theoretically ISO 2022, but has no ISO-IR registration (and thus no standardised escape sequence) and is not included in any EUC code. |
Otherrelated: | Intended to supplement: Other supplementary ISO 2022 CJK DBCSes: |
KS X 1002 (formerly KS C 5657) is a South Korean character set standard established in order to supplement KS X 1001. It consists of a total of 7,649 characters.
Unlike KS X 1001, KS X 1002 is not encoded in any legacy encoding. Even in 1994, it was known as "a standard that no one implemented".[1]
Characters in KS X 1002 are arranged in a 94×94 grid (as in ISO/IEC 2022), and the two-byte code point of each character is expressed in the haeng-yeol form, which specifies a row (haeng Korean: 행) and the position of the character within the row (cell, yeol Korean: 열).
The rows (numbered from 1 to 94) contain characters as follows:[2]
The rows 15 and 86–94 are unassigned.
KS X 1002 is one of the sources of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode.[3] [4]
In Unicode 1.1, the characters at U+3D2E–U+44B7 were from rows 16–36 of KS X 1002.[5] [6] [7] [8] However, they were deleted and superseded by the new Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00–U+D7AF) in Unicode 2.0.
See also: List of modern Hangul characters in ISO/IEC 2022–compliant national character set standards.