Hello Jungshik! JS> MS should have registered CP949/950 as Windows-949/950 JS> instead of labeling them misleadingly as ks_c_5601-1987 and big5, In case JS> of gb2312, gbk should be registered and used. I don't know about big5, JS> but in Korean case, apparently they tried to pretend that they follow JS> Korean Nat'l std. while they extended it in a proprietary way.
I used to think that the trouble is as the following: ks_c_5601-1987 is a coded character set, maybe an implied raw 2 bytes per char, 7-bit Character Encoding Scheme without any control characters and without the space as defined by RFC1345, while EUC-KR is a Character Encoding Scheme built upon ks_c_5601-1987 that encodes ks_c_5601-1987 chars as pairs of 0xA1-0xFE octets and uses 0x21-0xFE for ASCII then the trouble is not that they extended ks_c_5601-1987 but that they have used a Coded Character Set name as as an alias to a CES built on top of that CCS. Isn't it? - Anton
