ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2211
2000-03-22

Universal Character Set
International Organization for Standardization
Organisation internationale de normalisationŒåæäóíàðîäíàß îðãàíèçàöèß ïî ñòàíäàðòèçàöèèTitle: Request for Collections for Multilingual European Subsets in ISO/IEC 10646
Source: Finland and Ireland
Status: National Body request
Date: 2000-03-22
A CEN ISSS (Information Society Standardization System) workshop has reached a
CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on three multilingual European Subsets of the UCS,
published as CEN ISSS CWA 13873. These subsets are:1) The MES-1 repertoire, which is a limited subset of Latin characters defined for thepurposes of interoperability. This is a fixed collection.
2) The MES-2 repertoire, primarily for business and administration use, particularly bypan-European organizations in their multilingual/multilingual applications. The
repertoire is defined for use as the set to which specific processing rules can be
tailored and applied. This is a fixed collection.
3) The MES-3 repertoire intended to cover the needs of the languages of Europe,
although limited to contemporary left-to-right scripts of European origin (but not tocharacters used in Europe). This is two collections: a non-fixed collection and asnapshot which is a fixed collection.
The specifications are attached.
Collection Name: MES-1
Type of Collection (Fixed or Non-fixed): FIXED
Number of characters 335
Plane 00
Rows Positions (Cells)
00 20–7E A0–FF
01 00–13 16–2B 2E–4D 50–7E
02 C7 D8–DB DD
20 15 18–19 1C–1D AC
21 22 26 5B–5E 90–93
26 6A

Collection Name: MES-2
Type of Collection (Fixed or Non-fixed): FIXED
Number of characters 1052
Plane 00
Rows Positions (Cells)
00 20–7E A0–FF
01 00–7F 8F 92 B7 DE–EF FA–FF
02 18–1B 1E–1F 59 7C 92 BB–BD C6–C7 C9 D8–DD EE
03 74–75 7A 7E 84–8A 8C 8E–A1 A3–CE D7 DA–E1
04 00–5F 90–C4 C7–C8 CB–CC D0–EB EE–F5 F8–F9
1E 02–03 0A–0B 1E–1F 40–41 56–57 60–61 6A–6B 80–85 9B F2–F3
1F 00–15 18–1D 20–45 48–4D 50–57 59 5B 5D 5F–7D 80–B4 B6–C4 C6–D3 D6–DB DD–EF F2–F4 F6–FE
20 13–15 17–1E 20–22 26 30 32–33 39–3A 3C 3E 44 4A 7F 82 A3–A4 A7 AC AF
21 05 16 22 26 5B–5E 90–95 A8
22 00 02–03 06 08–09 0F 11–12 19–1A 1E–1F 27–2B 48 59 60–61 64–65 82–83 95 97
23 02 10 20–21 29–2A
25 00 02 0C 10 14 18 1C 24 2C 34 3C 50–6C 80 84 88 8C 90–93 A0 AC B2 BA BC C4 CA–CB D8–D9
26 3A–3C 40 42 60 63 65–66 6A–6B
FB 01–02
FF FDCollection Name: MES-3A
Type of Collection (Fixed or Non-fixed): NON-FIXEDThe following UCS collections from annex A of ISO/IEC 10646-1 comprise MES-3A:
No. Collection name hex range
1 BASIC LATIN 0020–007E
2 LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT 00A0–00FF
3 LATIN EXTENDED-A 0100–017F
4 LATIN EXTENDED-B 0180–024F
5 IPA EXTENSIONS 0250–02AF
6 SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS 02B0–02FF
7 COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS 0300–036F
8 BASIC GREEK 0370–03CF
9 GREEK SYMBOLS AND COPTIC 03D0–03FF
10 CYRILLIC 0400–04FF
11 ARMENIAN 0530–058F
27 BASIC GEORGIAN 10D0–10FF
30 LATIN EXTENDED ADDITIONAL 1E00–1EFF
31 GREEK EXTENDED 1F00–1FFF
32 GENERAL PUNCTUATION 2000–206F
33 SUPERSCRIPTS AND SUBSCRIPTS 2070–209F
34 CURRENCY SYMBOLS 20A0–20CF
35 COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS FOR SYMBOLS 20D0–20FF36 LETTERLIKE SYMBOLS 2100–214F
37 NUMBER FORMS 2150–218F
38 ARROWS 2190–21FF
39 MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS 2200–22FF
40 MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL 2300–23FF
42 OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION 2440–245F
44 BOX DRAWING 2500–257F
45 BLOCK ELEMENTS 2580–259F
46 GEOMETRIC SHAPES 25A0–25FF
47 MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS 2600–26FF
63 ALPHABETIC PRESENTATION FORMS FB00–FB4F
65 COMBINING HALF MARKS FE20–FE2F
70 SPECIALS FFF0–FFFD

Collection Name: MES-3B
Type of Collection (Fixed or Non-fixed): FIXED
Number of characters 2819
Plane 00Rows Positions (Cells)
00 20–7E A0–FF
01 00–FF
02 00–1F 22–33 50–AD B0–EE
03 00–4E 60–62 74–75 7A 7E 84–8A 8C 8E–A1 A3–CE D0–D7 DA–F3
04 00–86 88–89 8C–C4 C7–C8 CB–CC D0–F5 F8–F905 31–56 59–5F 61–87 89–8A
10 D0–F6 FB
1E 00–9B A0–F9
1F 00–15 18–1D 20–45 48–4D 50–57 59 5B 5D 5F–7D 80–B4 B6–C4 C6–D3 D6–DB DD–EF F2–F4 F6–FE
20 00–46 48–4D 6A–70 74–8E A0–AF D0–E3
21 00–3A 53–83 90–F3
22 00–F1
23 00–7B 7D–9A24 40–4A
25 00–95 A0–F7
26 00–13 19–71
FB 00–06 13–17
FE 20–23
FF F9–FD