| Universal Character Set (UCS, ISO/IEC 10646) A 1993 and standard , also known as "Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set". UCS comes in two flavours: a 16-bit variant called UCS-2 and a 32-bit variant 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 . The implementation of UCS is still in in its infancy, though some moves, such as the language defining a character to be 16 bits, are tale-telling. (1997-07-04) |