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ISO/IEC 10646 specifies the Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS).It is applicable to the representation,transmission,interchange,processing, storage,input and presentation of the written form of the languages of the world as well as additional symbols. ISO/IEC 10646-1 specifies the overall architecture and the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)of the UCS. ISO/IEC 10646-2 specifies Supplementary Planes as follows: - the Supplementary Multilingual Plane for scripts and symbols (SMP)of the UCS and defines a set of graphic characters used in scripts not covered by the Supplementary Plane for CJK Ideographs (SIP)and the BMP;- the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP)of the UCS and defines a set of graphic characters that are used in East Asia.These are defined as CJK ideographs (East Asian ideographs);- the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP)and defines a set of special purpose use graphic characters;;the names for graphic characters of these planes,and the coded representation using the four-octet (32-bit)canonical form of the UCS