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HKSCS(5)
NAME
  HKSCS - Codeset conversion support for the Hong Kong Supplementary
  Character Set

DESCRIPTION
  HKSCS, the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Codeset, is a supplementary
  character set developed by the Chinese government, in collaboration with
  the Chinese Language Interface Advisory Committee, to provide Chinese
  characters needed in computing in Hong Kong. The characters contained in
  HKSCS are only for computer use and, as developed by the Chinese
  government, can be represented as either Big-5 or Unicode. See the web
  site, http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/hkscs/, for more information on
  HKSCS and the work of the Chinese government.

  While HKSCS is not a character set name, Tru64 UNIX uses it as the name for
  extended Big-5 encoding that contains HKSCS characters.  Currently, Tru64
  UNIX support for HKSCS is limited to code conversion between HKSCS and
  Unicode.

  HKSCS Character Mapping

  OnTru64 UNIX, HKSCS is represented in Big-5 encoding.	 See big5(5) for
  information on character mapping.

  HKSCS characters map to Big-5 in the range of 8840 to FEFE.

  HKSCS Character Groups

  HKSCS, as initially developed in 1999, contained 4702 Chinese characters
  specific to the Hong Kong environment and used in electronic communication
  and data exchange conducted in Chinese. A new version, HKSCS-2001, was
  developed at the end of 2001 and added 116 more characters for a total of
  4818. Additional enhancements to HKSCS may be made in the future.

  The HKSCS character set defines the following character groups:

    ·  Special symbols (441)

    ·  Han characters (4377)

    ·  Cantonese dialect characters (109)

    ·  Radicals and shapes (30)

    ·  Scientific terms (12)

    ·  Names (people, companies, places, etc.) (889)

    ·  Other (103)

  Codeset Conversion

  This version of Tru64 UNIX provides HKSCS support only for the purpose of
  codeset conversion using Big-5 encoding. The following codeset converter
  pairs are available for converting characters between HKSCS and other
  encoding formats. Refer to iconv_intro(5) for an introduction to codeset
  conversion. See Unicode(5), for more information about the other codeset
  for which HKSCS is the input or output.

    ·  UTF-16_HKSCS, HKSCS_UTF-16

       Converting from and to UTF-16

    ·  UCS-4_HKSCS, HKSCS_UCS-4

       Converting from and to UCS-4

    ·  UTF-8_HKSCS, HKSCS_UTF-8

       Converting from and to UTF-8

SEE ALSO
  Commands: locale(1)

  Others: i18n_intro(5), iconv_intro(5), l10n_intro(5), Unicode(5)

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