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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2

Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set
(U C S)

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2234
Date: 2000-08-09

 

Title: 

Proposal to extend U+ notation

Source: 

Unicode Technical Committee

Status: 

Liaison Communication

Action: 

For consideration by JTC1/SC2/WG2

The Unicode Technical Committee has extended the U+ notation to allow for 5 or 6 hexadecimal digits as well as 4 hexadecimal digits. For example, one could then write U-00012345 as U+12345. This allows for a uniform notation that covers the range of all of the codepoints in Unicode, and will be used in future versions of the Unicode Standard, in technical reports, and in other Unicode documents.

The consortium urges WG2 to also allow this extended notation for use in reference to codepoints in 10646. This would involve changes to the ISO 10646, Clause 6.5: