There is also the possibility of simply stacking a (sequence of) medial(s) ( jungseong) – and then a (sequence of) final(s) ( jongseong) and/or a Middle Korean pitch mark, if needed – on top of the (sequence of) initial(s) ( choseong), if the font has medial and final jamos with zero-width spacing that are inserted to the left of the cursor or caret, thus appearing in the right place below or to the right of the initial. Of course the former way needs more font memory, but gives the possibility of getting better shapes, since it is complicated to create fully stylistically correct combinations which may be preferred when creating documents. The other way is to encode letters ( jamos), and to let the software combine them into correct combinations, which is not supported in Windows. The way used by Microsoft Windows is to have every one of the 11,172 syllable combinations as a code and a pre-formed font character. The international Unicode standard contains special characters for representing the Korean language in the native hangul phonetic system. In North Korea, a separate character set called KPS 9566 is in use, which is rather similar to KS X 1001. These two encodings combine US-ASCII ( ISO 646) with the Korean standard KS X 1001:1992 (previously named KS C 5601:1987). Where 8 bits are allowed, the EUC-KR encoding is preferred. In RFC 1557, a method known as ISO-2022-KR for a 7-bit encoding of Korean characters in email was described. See also: ISO/IEC 2022, EUC-KR, KPS 9566, GB 12052, and List of modern Hangul characters in ISO/IEC 2022–compliant national character set standards

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