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ISO 6438

ISO standard

Summary

ISO standard

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. Developed separately from the African reference alphabet but apparently based on the same data sets, it has had little use; its forms are retained in Unicode. FreeDOS calls this Code Page 65504.

Character set

			{{chset-cell1		style=background:#DDD}}													{{chset-cell1		style=background:#DDD}}

Prior to Unicode 7.0, mapped to . Prior to Unicode 8.0, mapped to .

References

(2010). "African Languages in a Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities for Indigenous Language Computing". International Development Research Centre.
"Cpi/CPIISO/Codepage.TXT at master · FDOS/Cpi".

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