Unified Hangul Code

Unified Hangul Code (UHC), or Extended Wansung, also known under <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a> as Code Page 949 (Windows-949, MS949 or ambiguously CP949), is the Microsoft Windows <a href="/facts/Code_page/tgcBrILG">code page</a> for the <a href="/facts/Korean_language/dmNnRxAA">Korean language</a>. It is an extension of Wansung Code (<a href="/facts/KS_C_5601/3qaRgLx3">KS C 5601</a>:1987, encoded as <a href="/facts/EUC-KR/eMDCPy2B">EUC-KR</a>) to include all 11172 non-partial <a href="/facts/Hangul/prUQxzfJ">Hangul</a> syllables present in <a href="/facts/Johab_-_Korean_Standard_Symbol/3qaRgLx3">Johab</a> (KS C 5601:1992 annex 3). This corresponds to the <a href="/facts/Hangul_Syllables/8o6yJAMz">pre-composed syllables</a> available in <a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Unicode</a> 2.0 and later.
Wansung Code has the drawback that it only assigns codes for the 2350 precomposed Hangul syllables which have their own <a href="/facts/KS_X_1001/3qaRgLx3">KS X 1001</a> (KS C 5601) codepoints (out of 11172 in total, not counting those using obsolete jamo), and requires others to use eight-byte composition sequences, which are not supported by some partial implementations of the standard. UHC resolves this by assigning single codes for all possible syllables constructed using modern jamo, by making assignments outside of the encoding space used for KS X 1001.
The lead byte range is extended to <a href="/facts/Hexadecimal/02ohQW22">0x</a>81–FE, and the trail byte range is extended to 0x41–5A, 0x61–7A and 0x81–FE (in EUC-KR, both ranges are 0xA1–FE). The codes outside the EUC-KR ranges are used for the additional hangul. If considered separately, both the EUC-KR Hangul block and the UHC extended Hangul section are in Unicode order.

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Unified Hangul Code