Universal Character Set
Universal Character Set
(character, standard)UCS comes in a 16-bit variant called UCS-2 and a 32-bitvariant called UCS-4, which is composed of 16-bit UCS-2"planes". So far only one 16-bit plane has been defined,which is known as the Basic Multilingual Plane.
The implementation of UCS is still in its infancy, though somemoves, such as the Java language defining a character to be16 bits, are suggestive.