The HKSCS and the ISO 10646 Standard

The Government has submitted the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for inclusion in the ISO 10646 international coding standard. The current version of the ISO 10646 standard includes all the 4,941 characters of the HKSCS.

The ISO 10646 standard is widely adopted by popular operating systems, database software, office automation (OA) suites, web browsers, e-mail clients and input devices. With the HKSCS included in the ISO 10646 standard, users of popular computer products which adopt the ISO 10646 standard will be able to use Chinese characters contained in the HKSCS.