The Unicode standard [5] does not mandate the support of all Unicode characters. Rather, it allows implementations to support subsets of Unicode characters.
But Unicode does not define any subsets. It does not provide any mechanisms for specifying such subsets either. This is made clear by the following bullet extracted from "Interpretation" subsubclause in the subclause 3.2 (Conformance Requirements) of the Unicode standard.
Any means for specifying a subset of characters that a process can interpret is outside the scope of this standard.
However, it is true that Unicode regular expressions can be used for representing subsets. We will discuss this topic in Section 4.1.