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The Working Group completed a survey of requirements for the text encoding of nationally approved and standardized geographical names and a review of the suitability of existing standards.  The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in conjunction with the Unicode Consortium had developed the 16-bit International Standard ISO/IEC 10646 as a solution for the problem of encoding text in a multilingual information processing environment.

The Working Group concluded that most romanized geographical names could be encoded using this standard.

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