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.


Statements (64)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Universal Coded Character Set
character encoding standard
international standard
abbreviation UCS
alignedWith Unicode Standard
applicationDomain internationalization
software interoperability
text encoding
characterEncodingForm 32-bit code space
codePointRange U+0000 to U+10FFFF
defines Universal Coded Character Set
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
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
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

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Unicode
alignedWith
Unicode
compatibleWith
ISO/IEC 10646 ("Universal Coded Character Set")
defines
Cyrillic Extended-B
encodingSystem
UTF-32
isStandardizedBy

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