Basic Multilingual Plane

text, standard (BMP) The first plane defined in

Unicode/ISO 10646, designed to include all scripts in

active modern use. The BMP currently includes the Latin,

Greek, Cyrillic, Devangari, hiragana, katakana, and Cherokee

scripts, among others, and a large body of mathematical,

APL-related, and other miscellaneous characters. Most of

the Han ideographs in current use are present in the BMP,

but due to the large number of ideographs, many were placed in

the Supplementary Ideographic Plane.

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(2002-03-19)