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ISO/IEC 10646 specifies the Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS). It is applicable to the representation, transmission, interchange, process-ing, storage, input, and presentation of the written form of the languages of the world as well as of additional symbols. This part of ISO/IEC 10646 specifies the overall architecture, and;defines terms used in ISO/IEC 10646;describes the general structure of the coded char-acter set;specifies the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of the UCS, and defines a set of graphic characters used in scripts and the written form of languages on a world-wide scale;;specifies the names for the graphic characters of the BMP, and their coded representations;specifies the four-octet (32-bit) canonical form of the UCS: UCS-4;specifies a two-octet (16-bit) BMP form of the UCS: UCS-2;;specifies the coded representations for control functions. Specifies the management of future additions to this coded character set.