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JISX 0212 National standard of Japan. 6067 characters (almost of them are Kanji). This character

set is intended to be used in addition to JISX 0208.

JISX 0213 Japanese national standard. Released in 2000. This includes JISX 0208 characters and

additional thousands of characters. Thus, this is intended to be an extension and a replace 

ment of JISX 0208. This has two 94x94 character sets, one of them inclucdes JISX 0208 plus

about 2000 characters and the another includes about 2400 characters. Exactly speaking,

JISX 0213 is not a simple superset of JISX 0208 because a few tens of Kanji variants which is

unified and share the same code points in JISX 0208 are dis unified and have separate code

points in JISX 0213. Share many characters with JISX 0212.

KSX 1001 (aka KSC 5601) National standard of South Korea. 8224 characters including 2350 Hangul,

Hanja (ideogram), Hiragana, Katakana, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other symbils. Hanja are

ordered in reading and Hanja with multiple readings are coded multiple times.

KSX 1002 National standard of South Korea. 7659 characters including Hangul and Hanja. In 

tended to be used in addition to KSX 1001.

KPS 9566 National standard of North Korea. Similar to KSX 1001.

GB 2312 National standard of China. 7445 characters including 6763 Hanzi (ideogram), Latin,

Greek, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, and other symbols.

GB 7589 (aka GB2) National standard of China. 7237 Hanzi. Intended to be used in addition to

GB 2312.

GB 7590 (aka GB4) National standard of China. 7039 Hanzi. Intended to be used in addition to

GB 2312 and GB 7589.

GB 12345 (aka GB/T 12345, GB1 or GBF) National standard of China. 7583 characters. Tradi 

tional characters version which correspond to GB 2312 simplified characters.

GB 13131 (aka GB3) National standard of China. Traditional characters version which corre 

spond to GB 7589 simplified characters.

GB 13132 (aka GB5) National standard of China. Traditional characters version which corre 

spond to GB 7590 simplified characters.

CNS 11643 National standard of Taiwan. Has 7 plains. Plain 1 and 2 includes all characters

included in Big5. Plain 1 includes 6085 characters including Hanzi (ideogram), Latin, Greek,

and other symbols. Plain 2 includes 7650. Number of character for plain 3 is 6184, plain 4 is

7298, plain 5 is 8603, plain 6 is 6388, and plain 7 is 6539.

There is a 94x94x94 character set. This is CCCII. This is national standard of Taiwan. Now 73400

characters are included. (The number is increasing.)

Non ISO 2022 compliant character sets are introduced later in `Other Character Sets and Encod 

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