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UCS

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | 299 words | Copyright

UCS Short for Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. A 16-bit code, defined in ISO/IEC 10646, intended to redress the deficiencies and restrictions of the ISO-7 code in a worldwide context. UCS is closely similar to Unicode. It contains an 8-bit subset that is backward-compatible with ISO-7.

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