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Code page 951 is a
code page In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a single byte. (In some c ...
number used for different purposes by IBM and Microsoft. * IBM uses the code page number 951 for their double-byte PC Data KS code, the double byte component of their code page 949, an encoding for the
Korean language Korean (South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Koreans, Korean descent. It is the official language, official and national language of both North Korea and So ...
. See Code page 949 (IBM). * The code page number 951 was also used by Microsoft as part of a
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for providing Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set ( HKSCS-2001) support in Windows XP, in the file name of a replacement for code page 950 (Traditional Chinese) with Unicode mappings for some Extended User-defined Characters (EUDC) found in HKSCS. HKSCS characters without a Unicode mapping are assigned a Unicode Private Use Area (PUA) code point following previous practices. The IBM code page number for Big5 with HKSCS-2001 is 5471. See Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set § Microsoft Windows.


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{{Set index article 951 Encodings of Asian languages