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Character Sets ISO-10646 and ISO-10646-J-1
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RFC 1815 Character Sets ISO-10646 and ISO-10646-J-1 July 1995
Finally, this memo, by no means, promotes the use of ISO 10646 on the
Internet. It's use is strongly discouraged, when there are other
charsets which can encode the same information, Families of ISO 10646
based charsets, like ISO 2022 based charsets, only forms set of
mutually incompatible encoding systems and, unlike ISO 2022 based
charsets [2022INT], they can not be merged together to be the single
world wide charset.
Description of "ISO-10646"
ISO-10646 is profiled to be the most basic part of the family of
encodings based on ISO 10646 and contains the following minimal
graphic characters:
collection number and name positions further restriction
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1 BASIC LATIN 0020-007E
2 LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT 00A0-00FF
C0 and C1 control characters may also be used as specified in the
section 16 of ISO 10646.
The text with "ISO-10646" encodes text in 16 bit big endian form.
As no combining characters are included, "ISO-10646" can be used with
applications at implementation level 1.
Left-to-right directionality should be used.
The encoding is implemented by Windows/NT.
For practical communication, use of "ISO-10646" is discouraged.
"ISO-8859-1" [RFC 1345] should be used instead.
M. Ohta Informational