
Basic Concepts and Terminology FAQ
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KS standard designation changesTable 1-9.
KS “C” series KS “X” series
KS C 5861 KS X 2901
KS C 5715 KS X 5002
It took several years until these new KS standard designations were consistently reected
in soware and documentation. Especially for KS X 1001, its original designation, KS C
5601, is still seen oen.
Are VISCII and VSCII identical? What about TCVN?
Although both VISCII and VSCII are short for Vietnamese Standard Code for Information
Interchange, they represent completely dierent character sets and encodings. VISCII is
dened in RFC 1456,
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and VSCII is derived from TCVN 5712:1993 (specically, VN2),
which is a Vietnamese national standard. VSCII is also known as ISO IR 180. e dier-
ences among VISCII and VSCII are described in Chapter 3. Appendix L provides com-
plete encoding tables for VISCII and VSCII, which better illustrate their dierences.
TCVN stands for Tiêu Chuẩn Việt Nam, which translates into English as “Vietnamese
Standard.” Like CNS, GB, JIS, and KS, it represents the rst portion of Vietnamese stan-
dard designations.
What Are Internationalization, Globalization, and Localization?
Internationalization—oen abbreviated as I18N, composed of the initial letter “I” fol-
lowed by the middle eighteen (18) letters followed by the nal letter “N”—is a term that
usually refers to the process of preparing soware so that it ...