ISO 6438:1983, ''Documentation — African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange'', is an
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standard for an 8-bit
character encoding
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for
African languages. It has had little use (such as being available through
UNIMARC
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Character set
* Prior to Unicode 7.0, mapped to .
Prior to Unicode 8.0, mapped to .
See also
* Africa Alphabet
* African reference alphabet
*Dinka alphabet The Dinka alphabet is used by South Sudanese Dinka people. The written Dinka language is based on the ISO basic Latin alphabet, but with some added letters adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet. The current orthography is derived from the ...
* 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)
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Character sets
Writing systems of Africa