CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

CCS Standards

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Rows 1 through 9 look a lot like GB 2312-80, huh? Well, they’re identical, except for

3-4, which is a “dollar” currency symbol () instead of GB 2312-80’s “yuan” currency

symbol ().

I have noted the following errors and inconsistencies during my ventures into the GB

12052-89 manual:

Page 1 of the manual correctly states that a total of 5,979 characters are enumerated •

(682 symbols plus 5,297 hangul and hanja). However, page 3 of the manual states that

rows 53 through 72 enumerate 1,876 characters, but I counted only 1,873—rows 53

through 71 enumerate 1,779 hangul, and rows 71 and 72 enumerate 94 hanja.

I have not heard of a revised version of GB 12052-89, so I can only assume that these er-

rors and inconsistencies are still present in the standard.

Unicode compatibility with KS and KPS standards

e most interesting aspects of the KS and KPS standards, in terms of Unicode compat-

ibility, is the extent to which their hanja map to its various CJK Unied Ideographs and

CJK Compatibility Ideographs blocks.

e 4,888 hanja in KS X 1001:2004 map as follows: 4,620 map to the Unied Repertoire

and Ordering (URO, which represent the initial block of CJK Unied Ideographs), and

the remaining 268 map to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block in the BMP. All 2,856

hanja of KS X 1002:2001 also map to the URO.

e 4,653 hanja in KPS 9566-97 map as follows: 4,652 map to ...