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Universal Character Set characters

Universal Character Set characters

Complete list of the characters available on most computers Index of predominant national and selected regional or minority scriptsAlphabetic[L]ogographicand [S]yllabicAbjadAbugida Latin Cyrillic Greek Armenian Georgian Mongolian Neo-Tifinagh Osage Hangula Hanzi [L] Kana [S] / Kanji [L] Hanjab [L] Cherokee [S] Arabic Hebrew North Indic South Indic Ethiopic Thaana Canadian syllabics a Featural-alphabetic. b Limited. The Unicode Consortium and the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 jointly collaborate on the list of the characters in the Universal Coded Character Set. The Universal Coded Character Set, most commonly called the Universal Character Set (abbr. UCS, official designation: ISO/IEC 10646), is an international standard to map characters, discrete symbols used in natural language, mathematics, music, and other domains, to unique machine-readable data values. By creating this mapping, the UCS enables computer software vendors to interoperate, and transmit—interchange—UCS-encoded text strings from one to another. Because it is a universal map, it can be used to represent multiple languages at the same time. This avoids the confusion of using multiple legacy character encodings, which