The purpose of this Malaysian Standard is to provide a general framework for discussing characters and glyphs. The framework is applicable to a variety of coded character sets and glyph-identification schemes. For illustration, this Malaysian Standard uses examples from characters coded in MS ISO/IEC 10646 and glyphs registered according to ISO/IEC 10036.
This Malaysian Standard:
a) differentiates between coded characters and registered glyphs;
b) identifies the domain of use of coded characters and glyph identifiers; and
c) provides a conceptual framework for the formatting and presentation of coded character data using glyph identifiers and glyph representations.
This Malaysian Standard describes idealised principles that were not completely followed in coding characters for MS ISO/IEC 10646 and in registering glyphs according to ISO/IEC 10036. The fact that MS ISO/IEC 10646, ISO/IEC 10036, and other standards do not completely follow the principles in the model does not inval