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Johab and EUC-KR encodings—two-byte regionsFigure 4-20.
Comparing CJKV Encoding Methods
e repertoire of characters, especially those of Chinese origin (meaning the ideographs),
in the CJKV character set standards overlap considerably, although the arrangement and
ordering of the characters is markedly dierent. is means that any attempt at conver-
sion between them must be done through the use of mapping tables, and there may be
cases—sometimes hundreds or thousands—when characters in one standard do not exist
in another.