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 In practice it is now superseded by Unicode.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
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
Ax | Ɓ | Ƈ | Ɗ | Ɖ | Ɛ | Ǝ | Ƒ | Ɠ | Ɣ | Ħ | Ɨ | |||||
Bx | ɓ | ƈ | ɗ | ɖ | ɛ | ə | ƒ | ɠ | ɣ | ħ | ɪ | |||||
Cx | Ƙ | Ŋ | Ɵ | Ɔ | Ƥ | Ʃ | ||||||||||
Dx | ƙ | ɬ | ɱ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ɵ | ɔ | ƥ | ɽ | ʃ | |||||
Ex | Ƭ | Ʈ | Ʊ | Ʋ | ꞳΧ | Ƴ | Ʒ | |||||||||
Fx | ƭ | ʈ | ʊ | ʋ | ꭓχ | ƴ | ʒ | ʕ | ʔ | ʘ | ǀ | ǂ | ǃ | ǁ |
- ^Χ Prior to Unicode 7.0, F5 mapped to U+03C7 χ GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI.
Prior to Unicode 8.0, E5 mapped to U+03A7 Χ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI.
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)