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Windows-949


Unified Hangul Code, also known under Microsoft Windows as Code Page 949 (Windows-949), is the Microsoft Windows code page for the Korean language. It is an extension of Wansung Code (KS C 5601:1987, encoded as EUC-KR) to include all 11172 Hangul syllables present in Johab (KS C 5601:1992).

IBM's code page for Unified Hangul Code is called Code page 1363 (IBM-1363), or "Korean MS-Win". It is a combination of Code page 1126 and Code page 1362. It differs in having a single byte mapping of 0x5C to the Won sign (U+20A9); Windows maps 0x5C to U+005C (the Unicode codepoint for the backslash) as in ASCII, although fonts often still render it as a Won sign.IBM's code page 949 is a different extension of EUC-KR.

The code page is not registered with IANA as a standard to communicate information over the Internet. Alternatives include UTF-8. However, the W3C/WHATWG Encoding Standard used by HTML5 incorporates the Unified Hangul Code extensions into its definition of EUC-KR.


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