KS X 1001

KS X 1001, "Code for Information Interchange (Hangul and Hanja)", formerly called KS C 5601, is a South Korean <a href="/facts/Character_encoding/ShJHIMoA">coded character set</a> standard to represent <a href="/facts/Hangul/prUQxzfJ">Hangul</a> and <a href="/facts/Hanja/cvLdbcxX">Hanja</a> characters on a computer.
KS X 1001 is encoded by the most common legacy (pre-<a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Unicode</a>) <a href="/facts/Character_encoding/ShJHIMoA">character encodings</a> for <a href="/facts/Korean_language/dmNnRxAA">Korean</a>, including <a href="/facts/EUC-KR/eMDCPy2B">EUC-KR</a> and Microsoft's <a href="/facts/Unified_Hangul_Code/a4JIr4EW">Unified Hangul Code</a> (UHC). It contains Korean Hangul syllables, CJK ideographs (Hanja), <a href="/facts/Greek_alphabet/1cHwB8Dg">Greek</a>, <a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">Cyrillic</a>, Japanese (<a href="/facts/Hiragana/RTn1gxfS">Hiragana</a> and <a href="/facts/Katakana/mmdWMTNr">Katakana</a>) and some other characters.
KS X 1001 is arranged as a 94×94 table, following the structure of 2-byte code words in <a href="/facts/ISO_2022/3vbwU2Bx">ISO 2022</a> and <a href="/facts/Extended_Unix_Code/eMDCPy2B">EUC</a>. Therefore, its <a href="/facts/Code_point/R184ugJX">code points</a> are <a href="/facts/Ordered_pair/EInLVI0r">pairs</a> of integers 1–94. However, some encodings (UHC and <a href="/facts/Johab_-_Korean_Standard_Symbol/3qaRgLx3">Johab</a>), 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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