Excerpts from http://ijstokes.paunix.org/unicode/unicode.html Some Acronyms: UCS(ISO 10646-1): Universal Character Set BMP: Basic Multilingual Plane UTF: Unicode Transformation Format UTF-8: 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format UCS is from ISO, Unicode is from Unicode consortium. In 1991 they agreed to collaborate and from then on, both standards are essentially same. But both organisations publish the statndards individually. They [...]

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