KPS 9566

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

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

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

  • The logo of the Workers' Party of Korea from hammer, sickle and brush ( code points 12-01, and 12-02 );
  • The five-pointed star in a circle, known by the flag of North Korea ( code point 12-03 );
  • As well as special jewelry sign of the letters of the names of the North Korean leaders Kim Il- sung and Kim Jong- il ( code points 04-72 to 04-74 and 04-75 to 04-77 ). The signs for the syllables and Kim Il that are written the same in both names in the Korean alphabet are counted double coded.

Currently, KPS 9566 is not fully compatible with Unicode, because the Unicode Consortium refused to take this jewelry characters in the Universal Character Set.

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