AS/NZS 4189.

1:1994
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Universal
multiple-octet coded Character Set
(UCS)

Part 1: Architecture and basic

multilingual plane
 AS/NZS 4189.1:1994

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/9, Information System—Vocabulary and Software. It was approved on
behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 7 March 1994 and on behalf of the
Council of Standards New Zealand on 21 February 1994. It was published on
16 May 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/9:

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Australian Association of Chief Information Officers

Australian Bankers Association
Australian Business Forms Association
Australian Chamber of Manufactures
Australian Computer Society
Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Library and Information Association
Australian National University
Australian Telecommunications Users Group
CSIRO—Division of Information Technology
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Finance, Australia
Federal Bureau of Consumer Affairs, Australia
Landata
Northern Territory University
Telstra Corporation
University of Auckland

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 AS/NZS 4189.1:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Universal
multiple-octet coded Character Set
(UCS)

Part 1: Architecture and basic

multilingual plane

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4189.1:1994.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
1 The Crescent,
Homebush NSW 2140 Australia
STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND
Level 10, Radio New Zealand House,
155 The Terrace,
Wellington 6001 New Zealand
ISBN 0 7262 8854 3
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PREFACE

This Joint Standard was prepared by the Joint Australia/New Zealand Standards Committee IT/9,
Information Systems — Vocabulary and Software. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from,
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, Information Technology — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set
(UCS) — Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane.
Under arrangements made between Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand and the international
Standards bodies, ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Standard
are advised that the number of this Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only
on the cover and title pages.
For the purpose of this Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(a) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’, ‘New Zealand Standard’ or ‘Joint Australian/
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New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(b) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the
following Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian/New Zealand Standard

or other Publication

ISO AS
2022 Information processing— ISO 7-bit and 1953 Information processing— ISO 7-bit and
8-bit coded character sets — Code 8-bit coded character sets— Code
extension techniques extension techniques
ISO/IEC
6429 Inf or mation technology — Contr ol 2761 Character sets and information
functions for coded character sets coding— Control functions for 7-bit
and 8-bit coded character sets

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CONTENTS
Page
1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . ... .. .. 1
2 Conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............. 1
3 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ... .. .. . 2
4 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. . ... . 2
5 General structure of the UCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ... . .. . .. 3
6 Basic structure and nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... .. ... . .. 4
7 Special features of the UCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ... . .. . ... 7
8 The Basic Multilingual Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............. 7
9 Other planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. . .. 7
10 The Restricted Use zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. . ... .. 7
11 Private Use groups and planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. ... . .. . . 8
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12 Revision and updating of the UCS . . . . . . . . . . ............. 8

13 Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . ... .. . 8
14 Coded representation forms of the UCS . . . . . . ............. 8
15 Implementation levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............. 9
16 Use of control functions with the UCS . . . . . . . . ............. 9
17 Declaration of identification of features . . . . . . . ............. 9
18 Structure of the code tables and lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
19 Block names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
20 Characters in bi-directional context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
21 Special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
22 Order of characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
23 Combining characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
24 Hangul syllable composition method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
25 Code tables and lists of character names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
26 CJK unified ideographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Annexes

A Collections of graphic characters for subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

B List of combining characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

C Mirrored characters in Arabic bi-directional context . . . . . . . . . 704

D Alternate format characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

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E Alphabetically sorted list of character names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

F The use of “signatures” to identify UCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

G UCS transformation format (UTF-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

H Recommendation for combined receiving/originating

devices with internal storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

J Notations of octet value representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

K Character naming guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

L Sources of characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

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M External references to character repertoires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

N Scripts under consideration for future editions of

ISO/IEC 10646 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
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