On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > > South Korea's PKS 5700
> >
> > This is a North Korean standard AFAIK.
>
> No. AFAIK, PKS stands for 'Proposed Korean Standard' and as such PKS 5700
> became KS C 5700 which in turn was renamed KS X 1005-1. Then, what is
> KS X 1005-1? It's just the Korean version of ISO 10646 (aligned with
> Unicode 2.0).
I could be wrong in saying that PKS C 5700 became KS C 5700 although
it's (almost) certain that PKS represents 'Proposed Korean Standard'
(where Korean means South Korean). Unicode 3.0 (p. 259) lists two PKS
C's as K source 2 and K source 3 (PKS C 5700-1 1994 and PKS C 5700-2
1994) and <http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/N777_CJK_B_CoverNote.pdf>
lists PKS C 5700-3 1998 as another K source. What is this mysterious
PKS C 5700-[1-3]? I asked around in the past but haven't obtained the
definitive answer. Perhaps, I should ask someone in IRG.
Jungshik Shin
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