The international
standard ISO/
IEC 10646 defines the Universal Character Set (UCS) as a character set on which many encodings are based. It contains nearly a hundred thousand abstract
characters, each identified by an unambiguous name and an
integer number called its code point. Characters (letters, numbers, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc.) from the many
languages,
scripts, and traditions of the world are represented in the UCS with unique code points. The inclusiveness of the UCS is continually improving as characters from previously unrepresented writing systems are added.
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