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Chapter 3: Character Set Standards
Figure 3-2 illustrates how earlier versions of the Japanese NCSes relate to each other and
to JIS Levels 1 and 2 kanji, dened in the JIS standards (specically JIS X 0208:1997).
JIS Level 1 Kanji
Jōy
ō Kanji
Gakushū Kanji
JIS Level 2 Kanji
Jinmei-y
ō
Kanji
Noncoded versus coded Japanese character set standardsFigure 3-2.
Korea
e 1,800 hanja enumerated in Korea’s Hanmun Gyoyukyong Gicho Hanja form a subset
of the 4,888 hanja in KS X 1001:2004. But, because 268 of the hanja in KS X 1001:2004
are the result of multiple encoding due to multiple readings, these 1,800 Hanmun Gyoyu-
kyong Gicho Hanja need to be represented by more than 1,800 hanja in KS X 1001:2004.
For the same reason, the middle school subset containing 900 hanja are represented by
more than 900 hanja in KS X 1001:2004.
Information Interchange and Professional Publishing
Besides the distinction between noncoded and coded character set standards, there are
two types of character sets in use today: those for information interchange, and those for
professional and commercial publishing. e goals and intended uses of these character
sets dier. e following sections detail their characteristics and the ways in which they
are dierent from one another.
Character Sets for Information Interchange
e majority of character set standards in use today were originally designed for
informa ...