rfc-5242

A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections

J. Klensin, H. Alvestrand
date2008-04-01 streamINDEPENDENT statusINFORMATIONAL pages14 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5242 doi10.17487/RFC5242
Many issues have been identified with the use of general-purpose character sets for internationalized domain names and similar purposes. This memo describes a fully unified coded character set for scripts based on Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Chinese (CJK) characters. It is not a complete specification of that character set. This memo provides information for the Internet community.