ISO 6438
ISO 6438:1983, Documentation — African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, is an ISO standard for an 8-bit character encoding for African languages. It has had little use (such as being available through UNIMARC[1]). In practice it is now superseded by Unicode.
Character set
Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined
- ^Χ Prior to Unicode 8.0, the character 0xE5 mapped to Χ, Unicode character U+03A5. Prior to Unicode 7.0, the character 0xF5 mapped to χ, Unicode character U+03C5.
See also
- Africa Alphabet
- African reference alphabet
- Dinka alphabet
- Pan-Nigerian alphabet
- Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
Notes
References
- "Coded Character Set for African Languages" (June 15, 1979)
- ISO 6438:1983 "Documentation -- African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange"
- "Application for Registration No.216, Extended African Latin alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3129; Date: 1998-07-06)
- "Status of ISO/TC 46/SC 4 Character Sets Projects" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3434; Date: 2000-04-18)
| Early telecommunications | |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 8859 |
|
| Bibliographic use | |
| National standards | |
| ISO/IEC 2022 | |
| Mac OS Code pages ("scripts") | |
| DOS code pages | |
| IBM AIX code pages | |
| Windows code pages | |
| EBCDIC code pages | |
| DEC terminals (VTx) | |
| Platform specific |
|
| Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646 | |
| TeX typesetting system | |
| Miscellaneous code pages | |
| Control character | |
| Related topics | |
