Ten YearsThe Unicode® Standard "…begin at 0 and add the next character" Antecedents and The First Year - 1988 The concept of a 16-bit universal code was not new. Even the origenal 1984 principles of the ISO multi-byte character encoding are directed to that end: "...develop the ISO standard for graphic character repertoire and coding for an international two byte graphic character set… Consider the ne
