GB 12052
character set standard published by the People's Republic of China for representing Korean
GB 12052-89, entitled Korean character coded character set for information interchange (Chinese: 信息交换用朝鲜文字编码字符集), is a character set standard established by China for the Korean language in China. It consists of a total of 5,979 characters, and has no relationship nor compatibility with South Korea's KS X 1001 and North Korea's KPS 9566.
Characters
Characters in GB 12052 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 qu-wei form, which specifies a row (qu 区) and the position of the character within the row (cell, wei 位).
The rows (numbered from 1 to 94) contain characters as follows:
01–09: identical to GB 2312, except 03-04 (￥ in GB 2312, ＄ in GB 12052)
16–37: modern Hangul syllables and jamo, level 1 (2,017 syllables and 51 jamo)
38–52: modern Hangul syllables, level 2 (1,356 characters)
53–72: archaic Hangul syllables and jamo (1,683 syllables and 96 jamo), and 94 Chinese characters
The rows 10–15 and 73–94 are unassigned.
Errors
There are some errors in the standard:
41-64: 믃 in the fold-out table, 믌 in the standard proper – should be 믃
46-65: 틘 in the fold-out table, 퇸 in the standard proper – should be 틘
49-37: 뗸 in the fold-out table, 뎬 in the standard proper – should be 뗸
51-82: 윹 in the fold-out table, 율 in the standard proper – should be 윹
53-67: ᄀᆈ in the fold-out table, missing in the standard proper – should be ᄀᆈ
72-88: missing in the fold-out table, 夞 in the standard proper – should be 夞
Precomposed modern Hangul sets
Unlike KS X 1001 and KPS 9566, GB 12052
does not encode jamo in a separate section (see row 4 of KS X 1001 and row 4 of KPS 9566).
has two levels of precomposed modern Hangul syllables.
However, like KS X 1001, GB 12052 lacks the initial+vowel counterparts for some initial+vowel+final syllables:
Level 1 (rows number 16 through 37)
Level 2 (rows number 38 through 52)
Statistics by jamo
Footnotes
References
External links
Lunde, Ken (2014-12-28). "GB 12052-89: PRC Standard For Korean".
Chung, Jaemin (2014-12-20). "GB 12052-89 to Unicode table".
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