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

ISO/IEC 8859

ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12...

 series of ASCII-based standard character encoding

Character encoding

A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or storage of text in...

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

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

. 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: euro sign

Euro sign

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 U+20AC, 0xA5: drachma sign

Greek drachma

Drachma, pl. drachmas or drachmae was the currency used in Greece during several periods in its history:...

 U+20AF, 0xAA: Greek Ypogegrammeni U+037A).

ISO-8859-7 is the IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

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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 C0 and C1 control codes

C0 and C1 control codes

Most character encodings, in addition to representing printable characters, may also represent additional information about the text, such as the position of a cursor, an instruction to start a new line, or a message that the text has been received...

 from ISO/IEC 6429.

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External links

• ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003
• [ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-7.TXT Unicode mapping file for ISO 8859-7]
• 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)