Universal Character Set
STANDARD SET OF CHARACTERS DEFINED BY THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 10646
UCS-16; UCS-2; ISO 10646; ISO/IEC 10646; IEC 10646; ISO10646; Universal code (typography); ISO-10646; Universal Code (Typography); ISO/IEC 10646-1; List of Unicode entities; Iso 10646-1; ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000; Universal character set; ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2; ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000(E); Universal Character Set; 10646-1:1993; ISO/CEI 10646; ISO/IEC 10646-2; ISO/CEI 10646-1; ISO/CEI 10646-2; ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993; ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001; ISO/CEI 10646-2:2001; ISO/CEI 10646-1:1993; ISO/CEI 10646-1:2000; ISO/IEC 10646:1993; ISO/IEC 10646:2000; ISO/IEC 10646:2001; ISO/IEC 10646:2003; ISO/IEC 10646:2011; ISO/IEC 10646:2012; ISO/IEC 10646:2014; ISO/CEI 10646:1993; ISO/CEI 10646:2000; ISO/CEI 10646:2001; ISO/CEI 10646:2003; ISO/CEI 10646:2011; ISO/CEI 10646:2012; ISO/CEI 10646:2014
<
character, standard> (UCS,
ISO/IEC
10646) A 1993
ISO and
IEC standard
character set, also known as "Universal
Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set".
UCS comes in a 16-bit variant called UCS-2 and a 32-bit
variant called UCS-4, which is composed of 16-bit UCS-2
"planes". So far only one 16-bit plane has been defined,
which is known as the
Basic Multilingual Plane.
The implementation of UCS is still in its infancy, though some
moves, such as the
Java language defining a character to be
16 bits, are suggestive.
[
Relationship with Unicode?]
(1997-07-04)