character, standard (UCS, ISO/IEC 10646) A 1993
ISO and
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,
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.
(1997-07-04)