(ISO 6438 International Standard INTE RNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATIONOMEXAYHAPOAHAA OPrAHM3ALMR NO CTAHAAPTW3ALWMGORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION Documentation - African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange Documentation -- Jeu de caracteres africains codés pour I'échange d'informations bibliographiques First edition - 1983-08-01 UDC 003.035: 003.339 Ref. No. ISO 6438-1983 (E) (3) D 6438-1983 Descriptors : documentation, character sets, coded character sets, information interchange. Price based on 6 pages censefrom IHS Not for Resale Foreword ISo (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (IsO member bodies). The work of developing International interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been authorized has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with isoO, also take part in the work. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for approval before their acceptance as International Standards by the ISO Council. International Standard ISO 6438 was developed by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Documentation, and was circulated to the member bodies in June 1982. It has been approved by the member bodies of the following countries : Australia India South Africa, Rep. Austria Italy Spain Canada Japan Sweden United Kingdom Czechoslovakia Netherlands Egypt, Arab Rep. of Poland USA Germany, F.R. Portugal Hungary Romania No member body expressed disapproval of the document. International Organization for Standardization, 1983 Printed in Switzerland Copyright International Organizatio for Standardization Not for Resale d without license from IHS ISO 6438-1983 (E) INTERNATIONAL STANDARD Documentation African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange Scope and field of application ISo 2375, Data processing - Procedure for registration of 1 escape sequences. 1.1This International Standard contains a set of 60 African ISO 5426, Extension of the Latin alphabet coded character set graphic characters with their coded representations. It consists for bibliographic information interchange. of a code table, a legend giving for each character its name and its use, and explanatory notes. The list of African languages in annex A is for information only and is not part of this Interna- 3 Implementation tional Standard. 3.1 The implementation of this coded character set in 1.2 These characters, together with characters in the interna- physical media and for transmission, taking into account the tional reference version of Iso 646 (Iso escape sequence need for error checking, is the subject of other Iso publica- ESC 2/8 4/0), constitute a character set for the international in- tions. (See annex B.) terchange of bibliographic data in African language alphabets. 3.2 The implementation of this International Standard is in accordance with the provisions of ISO 2022 and 1SO 2375 and 1.3 This International Standard contains special characters is identified by the following escape sequences : which are peculiar to African languages in Latin script. Special characters (including accents and diacritical marks) which are GO : ESC 2/8 4/13 occur in African languages as well, are defined in ISo 5426. G1 : ESC 2/9 4/13 G2 : ESC 2/10 4/13 2 References G3 : ESC 2/11 4/13 IsO 646, Data processing - 7-bit coded character set for infor- mation interchange. 3.3 The unassigned code positions in the code table are not ISo 2022, Information processing 1 - /SO 7-bit and 8-bit coded to be utilized in the international exchange of bibliographic character sets -- Code extension techniques. data. Copyright International Organization for Standardization Not for Resal