ISO 5428:1984, ''Greek alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange'', is an
ISO standard for an 8-bit
character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values tha ...
for the
modern Greek language
Modern Greek (, , or , ''Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa''), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (, ), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of th ...
. It contains a set of 73 graphic characters and is available through
UNIMARC
MARC (machine-readable cataloging) standards are a set of digital formats for the description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books, DVDs, and digital resources. Computerized library catalogs and library management software need to str ...
.
IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme (UBCIM), UNIMARC / Authorities 1991
/ref> In practice it is now superseded by Unicode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, ...
.
Character set
See also
*Greek Alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as ...
*ISO/IEC 8859-7
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 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. I ...
Notes
References
ISO 5428:1984 "Greek alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange"
* ttp://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/CJK/94CHAR/iso5428-1980.gif "Greek Character Tables: ISO 5428-1980"br>"Greek alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange" (June 1, 1982)"Greek alphabet character set for bibliographic use" (August 13, 1976; older standard)
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Character sets