ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet'', is part of the
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. ...
series of ASCII-based standard
character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to Graphics, graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of Language, human language, allowing them to be Data storage, stored, Data communication, transmi ...
s, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern
Greek language
Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), southe ...
. The original 1987 version of the standard had the same character assignments as the Greek national standard ELOT 928, published in 1986. The table in this article shows the updated 2003 version which adds three characters (0xA4:
euro sign U+20AC, 0xA5:
drachma sign U+20AF, 0xAA: Greek
ypogegrammeni
The iota subscript is a diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet shaped like a small vertical stroke or miniature iota placed below the letter. It can occur with the vowel letters eta , omega , and alpha . It represents the former presence of an o ...
U+037A). Microsoft has assigned code page 28597 a.k.a. Windows-28597 to ISO-8859-7 in Windows.
IBM has assigned code page 813 to ISO 8859-7.
(IBM
CCSID
A CCSID (coded character set identifier) is a 16-bit number that represents a particular encoding of a specific code page. For example, Unicode is a code page that has several encoding (so called "transformation") forms, like UTF-8, UTF-16 and U ...
813 is the original encoding.
CCSID 4909 adds the
euro sign.
CCSID 9005 further adds the drachma sign and ypogegrammeni.
)
ISO-8859-7 is the
IANA preferred charset name for this standard (formally the 1987 version, but in practice there is no problem using it for the current version, as the changes are pure additions to previously unassigned codes) when supplemented with the
C0 and C1 control codes
The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII. The codes represent additional information about the text, such as the position of a cursor, ...
from
ISO/IEC 6429
ISO/IEC JTC 1, entitled "Information technology", is a joint technical committee (JTC) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its purpose is to develop, maintain and p ...
.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
is preferred for Greek in modern applications, especially as
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from ''Unicode'' (or ''Universal Coded Character Set'') ''Transformation Format 8-bit''.
UTF-8 is capable of ...
encoding on the Internet. Unicode provides many more glyphs for complete coverage, see
Greek alphabet in Unicode and
Ancient Greek Musical Notation
Ancient Greek Musical Notation is a Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and docu ...
for tables.
Codepage layout
See also
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Windows-1253
Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 or abbreviated as cp1253, is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek.
It i ...
*
ISO 5428
ISO 5428:1984, ''Greek alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange'', is an ISO standard for an 8-bit character encoding for the modern Greek language. It contains a set of 73 graphic characters and is available through ...
*
ELOT 927 ELOT 927 is 7-bit character set standardized by ELOT, the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (HOS). It is also known as ISO-IR-88, CSISO88GREEK7 or 7-bit DEC Greek. The standard was withdrawn in November 1986. Support for it was implemented i ...
References
External links
ISO/IEC 8859-7:1999- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet ''(draft dated June 10, 1999; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, published October 10, 2003)''
8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Greek Alphabet ''(December 1986)''
ISO-IR 126Right-hand Part of Latin/Greek Alphabet ''(November 30, 1986; superseded by ISO-IR 227)''
ISO-IR 227Right-hand Part of Latin/Greek Alphabet ''(July 28, 2003)''
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ISO/IEC 8859
Computer-related introductions in 1987