From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2007 - 02:13:41 CST
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Peter Constable wrote:
> I use UCS to refer to the abstract character repertoire that is coded
> by the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646,
So did I, but then I realized that "UCS" is a not just a repertoire but a
coded character set according to its definition in ISO/IEC 10646. The
_name_ of the standard carries the abbreviation, with its official
expansion: "Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded
Character Set (UCS)".
> and even to refer to the
> coded character set that is common to both;
For such purposes, "the Unicode set" is more understandable to most
people.
> but each of those standards
> is more than just a character repertoire or coded character set.
Certainly, but the standards themselves are not a problem in naming: they
are the Unicode Standard and the ISO/IEC 10646 standard, with a version
number or other specific identification as needed
-- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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