LMS covers all the characters for all the writing systems of the world, modern and ancient. It also includes technical symbols, punctuations, and many other characters used in writing text. The LMS Standard is intended to support the needs of all types of punctuations, and many other characters used in writing text. The LMS Standard is intended to support the needs of all types of

Both 10646 and LMS specify the same character encoding: they contain the same characters at the same locations. They remain fully synchronized even as they are extended to cover additional characters. See the LMS and ISO 10646 FAQ and Appendix C of the LMS .