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 Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographica ...

. See

Code page 949 (IBM) IBM code page 949 (IBM-949) is a character encoding which has been used by IBM to represent Korean language text on computers. It is a variable-width encoding which represents the characters from the Wansung code defined by the South Korean standa ...

. * The code page number 951 was also used by Microsoft as part of a

kludge A kludge or kluge () is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet sla ...

for providing Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (

HKSCS The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (; commonly abbreviated to HKSCS) is a set of Chinese characters – 4,702 in total in the initial release—used in Cantonese, as well as when writing the names of some places in Hong Kong (whether in ...

-2001) support in Windows XP, in the file name of a replacement for

code page 950 Code page 950 is the code page used on Microsoft Windows for Traditional Chinese. It is Microsoft's implementation of the '' de facto'' standard Big5 character encoding. The code page is not registered with IANA, and hence, it is not a standard ...

(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