EUC-KR is a variable-width encoding to represent Korean text using two coded character sets, KS X 1001 (formerly KS C 5601) and KS X 1003 (formerly KS C 5636)/ISO 646:KR/US-ASCII. KS X 2901 (formerly KS C 5861) stipulates the encoding and RFC 1557 dubbed it as EUC-KR. A character drawn from KS X 1001 (G1, code set 1) is encoded as two bytes in GR (0xA1-0xFE) and a character from KS X 1003/US-ASCII (G0, code set 0) takes one byte in GL (0x21-0x7E).
It is the most widely used legacy character encoding in Korea on all three major platforms (Unix-like OS, Windows and Mac), but its use has been very slowly decreasing as UTF-8 gains popularity, especially on Linux and Mac OS X. It is usually referred to as Wansung (완성) in Republic of Korea. The default Korean codepage for Windows (code page 949) is a proprietary, but upward compatible extension of EUC-KR referred to as Unified Hangeul Code (통합 완성형, Tonghab Wansunghyung). Mac Korean used in classic Mac OS is also compatible with EUC-KR.
As with most other encodings, UTF-8 is now preferred for new use, solving problems with consistency between platforms and vendors.
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