KPS 9566

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KPS 9566 is a North Korean standard that specifies a character encoding for the Korean script . It was first published in 1993 and revised in 1997, 2000 and most recently in 2003. The South Korean counterpart to KPS 9566 is KS X 1001 .

KPS 9566 is a 16-bit coding that is based on the coding principles of ISO / IEC 2022 and is compatible with them. All characters are coded in the range 0x21-0x7E in a 94 × 94 matrix, which allows the coding of a maximum of 8,836 characters - a system that is also used by neighboring codings such as KS X 1001, JIS X 0208 or GB2312 .

KPS 9566 contains a number of special characters from everyday political life in North Korea, namely:

  • the Korean Labor Party logo of hammer, sickle and brush (code points 12-01 and 12-02);
  • the five-pointed star in a circle, known from the flag of North Korea (code point 12-03);
  • as well as special decorative symbols for the spelling of the names of the North Korean heads of state Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il (code points 04-72 to 04-74 and 04-75 to 04-77). The characters for the syllables Kim and Il , which are spelled identically in both names in the Korean script, are coded twice.

Currently, KPS 9566 is not one hundred percent compatible with Unicode because the Unicode Consortium refused to include these decorative characters in the Universal Coded Character Set .

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