ISO/IEC 10646

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ISO/IEC 10646 is an international standard that defines the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS), a comprehensive repertoire of characters used worldwide and closely aligned with the Unicode Standard.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Universal Coded Character Set
character encoding standard
international standard
abbreviation UCS
alignedWith Unicode Standard
linked to: Unicode
applicationDomain internationalization
software interoperability
text encoding
characterEncodingForm 32-bit code space
codePointRange U+0000 to U+10FFFF
defines Universal Coded Character Set
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
definesConcept block
code point
coded character
combining character
plane
surrogate pair
firstEditionPublished 1993
goal provide a single universal character set for information interchange
includesBlockType abugidas
alphabetic scripts
currency symbols
emoji characters
logographic scripts
mathematical symbols
punctuation marks
syllabaries
symbols and pictographs
technical symbols
includesPlane Basic Multilingual Plane
Supplementary Ideographic Plane
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Supplementary Private Use Area-A
Supplementary Private Use Area-B
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
jointTechnicalCommittee ISO/IEC JTC 1
maintainedBy ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
maximumCodePoints 1114112
publishedBy International Electrotechnical Commission
International Organization for Standardization
region international
relatedStandard ISO/IEC 8859
RFC 3629
Unicode Standard
linked to: Unicode
relationshipToUnicode Unicode is a superset specification that references ISO/IEC 10646 code points
keeps code points synchronized with Unicode
scope coded representation of characters used in written languages of the world
emoji
punctuation
symbols
technical symbols
standardFamily ISO/IEC standards
linked to: ISO standards
standardNumber 10646
standardType information technology
status active
usedBy databases
network protocols
operating systems
programming languages
usesEncodingForm UCS-2
UCS-4
UTF-16
UTF-32
UTF-8

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Unicode compatibleWith ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode alignedWith ISO/IEC 10646
UTF-32 isStandardizedBy ISO/IEC 10646
Cyrillic Extended-B encodingSystem ISO/IEC 10646
ISO/IEC 10646 defines Universal Coded Character Set
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
Basic Multilingual Plane standardizedIn ISO/IEC 10646
subject linked to: BMP
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 responsibleForStandard Universal Coded Character Set
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode 5.1 compatibleWith ISO/IEC 10646
UCS fullName Universal Coded Character Set
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
UCS definedByStandard ISO/IEC 10646
UCS standardNumber ISO/IEC 10646
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane introducedInStandard ISO/IEC 10646:2000 amendment
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane isPartOf ISO/IEC 10646 universal coded character set
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
RFC 3629 relatesTo ISO/IEC 10646
RFC 3629 relatedStandard ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode 4.1 compatibleWith ISO/IEC 10646:2003 plus amendments
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
Georgian Extended belongsToStandard ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode 3.0 compatibilityWith ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode 1.1 coordinatedWith ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode 1.1 relatedStandard ISO/IEC 10646-1
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode 7.0 compatibleWith ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (corresponding repertoire)
linked to: ISO/IEC 10646
Ethiopic Supplement encodingSystem ISO/IEC 10646
Ethiopic Extended-B encodingStandard ISO/IEC 10646
Myanmar Extended-B encodingSystem ISO/IEC 10646