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- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ Chung, Jaemin (2017-03-29). "Informative document about three pre-Unicode-2.0 modern hangul syllables" (PDF).
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- ↑ "Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies". Unicode Consortium. 2016-11-14.