| Basic Multilingual Plane The first, and to date the only, plane defined. It was developed by merging the ISO draft for 16-bit character codes with the code used by . It inherited features from both, compatibility with other standards (such as ) from the ISO draft, character combining (such as writing the letter "á" as a combination of "a" and "'") from Unicode. Presently the BMP is half empty, although it covers all major languages, including Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, hiragana, katakana, Devanagari, Easter Island "rongo-rongo", and even (but leaves out ). (1997-07-04) |