Legacy Character Sets : Chinese, Japanese, Korean (1)
- CJK languages use ideographs
- Several thousand ideographs needed for daily life
- 256 characters insufficient ⇒ 16-bit character sets
- JIS X 0208, first multi-byte character set for Japanese (1976)
- Organized as 94 rows with 94 cells each, total of 8,836 code pints, compatibility with ASCII
- Korean and Chinese design own JIS X 0208-like character sets
- China: GB 2312 (mainland), CNS 11643 & Big5 (Taiwan)
- Korea: KS C 5601 (official), UHC (vendor)
