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@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ positions, one for each character.
 Part 1 of the standard (ISO 10646-1)
 defines the first 65534 code positions (0x0000 to 0xfffd), which form
 the
-.IR "Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)" ,
-that is plane 0 in group 0.
+.IR "Basic Multilingual Plane"
+(BMP), that is plane 0 in group 0.
 Part 2 of the standard (ISO 10646-2)
 adds characters to group 0 outside the BMP in several
 .I "supplementary planes"