ISO/IEC 10646 using UTF8

ISO 10686 is a standard for specifying characters used by human languages. It consist of a names and description of characters, their numeric value and how to encode them. The UNICODE standard is a related standard where the names, description and numberic values kept in sync with the ISO 10686 standard but with a slightly different set of encoding requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set

The ISO 10686 specification is available as a zip file from http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ under these terms:

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The documents you are about to download are a single-user, non-revisable Adobe Acrobat PDF file, to store on your personal computer. You may print out and retain one printed copy of the PDF file. This printed copy is fully protected by national and international copyright laws, and may not be photocopied or reproduced in any form. Under no circumstances may it be resold.

The UNICODE version is available fromhttp://www.unicode.org/charts/ under these terms:

Terms of Use

You may freely use these code charts for personal or internal business uses only. You may not incorporate them either wholly or in part into any product or publication, or otherwise distribute them without express written permission from the Unicode Consortium. However, you may provide links to these charts.

The fonts and font data used in production of these code charts may NOT be extracted, or used in any other way in any product or publication, without permission or license granted by the typeface owner(s).

The Unicode Consortium is not liable for errors or omissions in this file or the standard itself. Information on characters added to the Unicode Standard since the publication of the most recent version of the Unicode Standard, as well as on characters currently being considered for addition to the Unicode Standard can be found on the Unicode web site.

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