ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 6937 Third edition 2001-12-15 Information technology Coded graphic character set for text communication Latin alphabet Technologies de I'information Jeu de caracteres graphiques codés pour la transmission de texte Alphabet latin Reference number ISO/IEC 6937:2001(E) IEC . @ISO/IEC2001 HS under ted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 6937:2001(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by isO member bodies. In the unlikely event ?ISO/IEC2001 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either IsO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.ch Printed in Switzerland ISO/IEC 2001-All rights reserved py IHS unde ermittedwithoutlicense from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 6937:2001(E) Contents Page Foreword iv Introduction v 1 Scope 1 2 Conformance and implementation 1 2.1 Conformance 1 2.2 Implementation 2 3 Normative references ２３５５５５６ 4 Terms and definitions 5 Notation, code table and names 5.1 Notation 5.2 Code table 5.3 Names 6 Specifications of SPACE, NO-BREAK SPACE and SOFT HYPHEN 7 Composition of the character repertoire 9 8 Specification of the coded character set 9 8.1 Character sets ６77 8.2 Explanations concerning the code table 8.3 Coded representations of the graphic characters of the repertoire 9 Graphic character subrepertoires 8 10 Identification of options 9 10.1 Purpose and context of identification 9 10.2 Identification of coding method 9 10.3 Identification of primary and supplementary sets 9 10.4 Identification of subrepertoire 9 Annex A (normative) 7-bit code 20 Annex B (informative) Method of definition of short identifiers of this International Standard 23 Annex C (informative) Use of non-spacing diacritical marks 33 Annex D (informative) Use of Latin alphabetic characters in various languages 34 Annex E (informative) Alternative coded representation of the repertoire withnonon-spacingdiacriticalmarks 38 Annex F (informative) Main differences between the 1994 (second) edition of ISO/lEC 6937 and the present (third) edition of this International Standard 39 Bibliography 40 ii ted withoutlicensefromIHS Not for Resale