This CEN Workshop Agreement specifies the following European repertoires in the form of Subsets of ISO/IEC 10646-1:
-- MES-1: A Latin repertoire based on ISO/IEC 6937:1994 (a limited subset, fixed collection);
-- MES-2: A Latin, Greek, Cyrillic repertoire based on ENV 1973:1996 (a limited subset, fixed collection);
-- MES-3: A repertoire needed to write the languages of Europe and transliterate between them (a selected subset (non-fixed collection) and a limited subset (fixed collection)).
These repertoires are intended for, for example:
-- governmental administrations in transborder transactions;
-- the European Union and EFTA for use within the Schengen area and within the European Economic Area;
-- CEN (the European Committee for Standardization);
-- support of the Council of Europe member country ratifications of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages.
NOTE: This CWA does not specify any encoding of the European Subsets.
Procurement guidance and conformance requirements are outside the scope of this CWA. It should be noted that the subsets defined herein can be used in combination with other collections or characters in ISO/IEC 10646 for specific applications. For example, MES-1 might be combined with UCS Collection 39 (Mathematical Operators) for educational needs.
NOTE: It is the intention of this CWA that, after ratification of this document, CEN TC304 shall submit the subsets to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 as collections to be added to annex A of ISO/IEC 10646-1.