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 International Organization for Standardization, ISO and International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC ...

series of ASCII-based standard

character encoding Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. The numerical v ...

s, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern

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. 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:

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U+20AC, 0xA5: drachma sign U+20AF, 0xAA: Greek ypogegrammeni 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 813 is the original encoding. CCSID 4909 adds the

. CCSID 9005 further adds the drachma sign and ypogegrammeni.) ISO-8859-7 is the

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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

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from ISO/IEC 6429.

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is preferred for Greek in modern applications, especially as

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encoding on the Internet. Unicode provides many more glyphs for complete coverage, see Greek alphabet in Unicode and Ancient Greek Musical Notation for tables.

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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- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet ''(draft dated June 10, 1999; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, published October 10, 2003)''
Standard ECMA-118
8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Greek Alphabet ''(December 1986)''
ISO-IR 126
Right-hand Part of Latin/Greek Alphabet ''(November 30, 1986; superseded by ISO-IR 227)''
ISO-IR 227
Right-hand Part of Latin/Greek Alphabet ''(July 28, 2003)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:ISO IEC 8859-7 ISO/IEC 8859 Computer-related introductions in 1987 Greek alphabet

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