Most collections in Annex A are very simple. They are ranges of code points. For example, LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT (collection 2) is a range 00A0-00FF.

MULTILINGUAL EUROPEAN SUBSET 2 (collection 282) is more complicated. It is specified by the following ranges of code points as indicated for each row.

 
Plane 00
Row Values within row
00  20-7E A0-FF
01  00-7F 8F 92 B7 DE-EF FA-FF
02  18-1B 1E-1F 59 7C 92 BB-BD
    C6-C7 C9 D8-DD EE
03  74-75 7A 7E 84-8A 8C 8E-A1 
    A3-CE D7 DA-E1
04  00-5F 90-C4 C7-C8 CB-CC D0-EB 
    EE-F5 F8-F9
1E  02-03 0A-0B 1E-1F 40-41 56-57 
    60-61 6A-6B 80-85 9B F2-F3
1F  00-15 18-1D 20-45 48-4D 50-57 
    59 5B 5D 5F-7D 80-B4 B6-C4
    C6-D3 D6-DB DD-EF F2-F4 F6-FE
20  13-15 17-1E 20-22 26 30 32-33 
    39-3A 3C 3E 44 4A 7F 82 A3-A4
    A7 AC AF
21  05 16 22 26 5B-5E 90-95 A8
22  00 02-03 06 08-09 0F 11-12 19-1A
    1E-1F 27-2B 48 59 60-61 64-65
    82-83 95 97
23  02 10 20-21 29-2A
25  00 02 0C 10 14 18 1C 24 2C 34 3C
    50-6C 80 84 88 8C 90-93
    A0 AC B2 BA BC C4 CA-CB D8-D9
26  3A-3C 40 42 60 63 65-66 6A-6B
    FB 01-02
FF  FD

Although this collection is not small, CJK collections are significantly larger. For example, JIS2004 IDEOGRAPHICS EXTENSION (collection 371) has 3695 code points. BASIC JAPANESE (collection 285) contains 6884 code points. IICORE (collection 370) has 9810 code points. Ranges are not useful for such CJK collections since code points in them are scattered. The definitions of these CJK collections are provided as electronic attachments.