ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3293
DATE: 1999-03-30
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
Coded Character Sets 
Secretariat: Japan (JISC)
 
 
DOC TYPE:   Other document 
 
TITLE:  
 		 Revised Scope of Project 18.02, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 2: Secondary Multilingual Plane for scripts and symbols Supplementary Plane for CJK Unified Ideographs General Purpose Plane 
SOURCE:  
 		 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2
PROJECT:  
 		 JTC 1.02.18.02
STATUS:  
 		 In response to Document SC 2 N 3151, the scope of Project 18.02 has been reviewed and modified by WG 2. This document was submitted to the 9th SC 2 Plenary Meeting held in Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-16 for approval (Resolution M09.13). 
ACTION ID:  
 		 FYI
DUE DATE:    
DISTRIBUTION:   P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
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ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat 
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NO. OF PAGES:  2
ACCESS LEVEL:  Open
WEB ISSUE #:   048
Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Toshiko KIMURA
IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)*
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1 Scope

ISO/IEC 10646 specifies the Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS). It is applicable to the representation, transmission, interchange, processing, storage, input and presentation of the written form of the languages of the world as well as additional symbols.

ISO/IEC 10646 Part 1 specifies the overall architecture and the Basic Multilingual Plane
(BMP) of the UCS.

This second part:

- specifies the Secondary Multilingual Plane for scripts and symbols (SMP) of the UCS and defines a set of graphic characters used in scripts not covered by the plane specified below (SIP) and the BMP;

- specifies the Supplementary Plane for CJK Unified Ideographs (SIP) of the UCS and defines a set of graphic characters that are used in East Asia. These are defined as Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) unified ideo-graphs (unified East Asian ideographs);

- specifies the General Purpose Plane (GPP) and defines a set of special purpose use characters.

- specifies the names for graphic characters of these planes, and the coded representation using the four-octet (32-bit) canonical form of the UCS.

- Graphic characters that are already encoded in the Part 1 are not repeated in these supplementary planes. In addition, any character is assigned to only one code position within the set of supplementary planes specified in this Part 2.