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Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set-2008 (HKSCS-2008)

Introduction

The HKSCS-2008 is an updated version of the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set-2004 (HKSCS-2004) published in May 2005. It includes 5,009 characters of which 68 are newly added. The HKSCS-2008 is aligned technically with the ISO/IEC 10646:2011 published in March 2011 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

There are two encoding schemes of HKSCS-2008, same as the HKSCS-2004. One encoding scheme is for the Big-5 coding standard and the other is for the ISO 10646 standard. The HKSCS-2008 is the last version of the HKSCS published with Big-5 code points.

• Document of HKSCS
• Cangjie Input Code and Cantonese pronunciation Reference Table
• Indexing System by Radicals
• ISO/IEC 10646:2003 and its Amendments 1 to 6 compatibility table

* NOTES

1. Note : "Cangjie" and "Changjie" are referring to the same Chinese input method(倉頡).