Code page 949
Encyclopedia
Code page 949 is Microsoft
's implementation that appears similar to EUC-KR. This code page
supports the Korean language
. The code page is not registered with IANA
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, and hence, is not a standard to communicate information over the Internet, although it's often used for that. UTF-8 is much preferred for compatibility.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
's implementation that appears similar to EUC-KR. This code page
Code page
Code page is another term for character encoding. It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language. The term code page originated from IBM's EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, but many vendors use this term including Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle Corporation...
supports the Korean language
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
. The code page is not registered with IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System , media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and numbers...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, and hence, is not a standard to communicate information over the Internet, although it's often used for that. UTF-8 is much preferred for compatibility.