noun
Universal Character Set; UCS
Technical computing term for the ISO/IEC 10646 standard character set, which includes Unicode.
国際符号化文字集合は、世界中の文字を単一の文字コードで扱うための規格です。
The Universal Character Set is a standard for handling characters from around the world with a single character code.
Unicode is a character encoding standard that is synchronized with the Universal Character Set; UCS is the ISO standard, while Unicode is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.
Compound of 国際 (international), 符号化 (encoding), 文字 (character), and 集合 (set). A direct translation of the English term 'Universal Character Set'.