Supplementary Ideographic Plane
<text, standard> (SIP) The third plane (plane 2) defined in Unicode/ISO
10646, designed to hold all the ideographs descended from Chinese writing
(mainly found in Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese) that aren't found in
the Basic Multilingual Plane. The BMP was supposed to hold all ideographs in
modern use; unfortunately, many Chinese dialects (like Cantonese and Hong Kong
Chinese) were overlooked; to write these, characters from the SIP are necessary.
This is one reason even non-academic software must support characters outside
the BMP.
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(2002-06-19)
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