ISO character encoding standards are primarily focused on identifying a 
repertoire of character elements and their code point assignments in some 
encoding form. ISO developed other, legacy character-encoding standards in the 
past, but has not done so for over 20 years. All of those legacy standards can 
be mapped as a bijection to ISO 10646; in regard to character repertoires, they 
are all proper subsets of ISO 10646. 

Hence, from an ISO perspective, ISO 10646 is the only standard for which 
on-going synchronization with Unicode is needed or relevant.


Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Unicode <unicode-boun...@unicode.org> On Behalf Of Martinho Fernandes via 
Unicode
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:08 AM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: The Unicode Standard and ISO

Hello,

There are several mentions of synchronization with related standards in 
unicode.org, e.g. in https://www.unicode.org/versions/index.html, and 
https://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html. However, all such mentions never 
mention anything other than ISO 10646.

I was wondering which ISO standards other than ISO 10646 specify the same 
things as the Unicode Standard, and of those, which ones are actively kept in 
sync. This would be of importance for standardization of Unicode facilities in 
the C++ language (ISO 14882), as reference to ISO standards is generally 
preferred in ISO standards.

--
Martinho



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