KS X 1002
South Korean character set supplementing KS X 1001
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".
Characters
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 행, 行) and the position of the character within the row (cell, yeol 열, 列).
The rows (numbered from 1 to 94) contain characters as follows:
01–07: Latin letters with diacritics (613 characters)
08–10: Greek letters with diacritics (273 characters)
11–13: miscellaneous symbols (275 characters)
14: compound jamo and Hangul syllables without an initial consonant (27 characters)
16–36: modern Hangul syllables (1,930 characters)
37–54: archaic Hangul syllables (1,675 characters)
55–85: Hanja (2,856 characters)
The rows 15 and 86–94 are unassigned.
Impact on Unicode
KS X 1002 is one of the sources of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode.
In Unicode 1.1, the characters at U+3D2E–U+44B7 were from rows 16–36 of KS X 1002. However, they were deleted and superseded by the new Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00–U+D7AF) in Unicode 2.0.
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