ISO 646-IRV-1972

International Standards Organization 646, for encoding information as the International Reference Version from which all other country specific encodings are based (1972 to 1990).

main computer information


Also known as:
USASCII - X3.4-1967 -- there two notable difference: broken vertical bar instead of vertical bar, international currency symbol instead of dollar sign.
ISO 646-IRV-1991 -- capitalist forces displace ISO 646-IRV-1972 with ISO 646-US-1972, establishing the new International Reference Version of ISO 646-IRV-1991. BFD.

Note: I have not reproduced the entire family of ISO 646 encodings. Only ISO 646-US-1972 / ISO 646-IRV-1992, and ISO 646-IRV-1972. Check out Roman Czyborra's [Good ole' ASCII] for more thorough coverage.

Technical note: ISO 646 focuses on the glyphs and not upon the control codes, whereas ASCII and its successor USASCII comingled the glyphs with the control codes. The control codes are covered by a different specification: ISO 6429. ISO 2022 covers escape sequences, commonly known as ANSI sequences or VT100/VT102 sequences. So, my pardon for comingling the ISO 6429 in with the ISO 646 -- you've got your peanut butter on my chocolate.

Also of note, ISO 10538 is the specification which describes control functions needed for specifying the layout of text. And ISO 8879 specifies SGML.

As per ISO 6429, the newline sequence: 0A (LF)
CP/M and Microsoft DOS and Windows idiosyncratically uses: 0D 0A (CR LF)
Apple's AppleDOS, ProDOS, GS/OS and MacOS idiosyncratically uses: 0D (CR)
Unix, AmigaOS, Linux, and many other OS's use the standard's specification.

hexadecimal
--00--
--10--
--20--
--30--
--40--
--50--
--60--
--70--
0
NUL DLE SP
0
@
P
`
p
1
SOH DC1
!
1
A
Q
a
q
2
STX DC2
"
2
B
R
b
r
3
ETX DC3
#
3
C
S
c
s
4
EOT DC4
¤
4
D
T
d
t
5
ENQ NAK
%
5
E
U
e
u
6
ACK SYN
&
6
F
V
f
v
7
BEL ETB
'
7
G
W
g
w
8
BS CAN
(
8
H
X
h
x
9
HT EM
)
9
I
Y
i
y
A
LF SUB
*
:
J
Z
j
z
B
VT ESC
+
;
K
[
k
{
C
FF FS
,
<
L
\
l
|
D
CR GS
-
=
M
]
m
}
E
SO RS
.
>
N
^
n
~
F
SI US
/
?
O
_
o
DEL

Legend
  light blue background indicates a control character
technically, not part of ISO 646
  normal colored background indicates a glyph (printable) character
NUL null
SOH start of heading
STX start of text
ETX end of text
EOT end of transmission
ENQ enquiry
ACK acknowledge
BEL bell (audible or attention signal)
BS backspace
HT horizontal tabulation
LF line feed
VT vertical tabulation
FF form feed
CR carriage return
SO shift out
SI shift in
DLE data link escape
DC1 device control 1 (XON)
DC2 device control 2
DC3 device control 3 (XOFF)
DC4 device control 4
NAK negative acknowledge
SYN synchronous idle
ETB end of transmission block
CAN cancel
EM end of medium
SUB substitute
ESC escape
FS file separator
GS group separator
RS record separator
US unit separator
SP space (normally whitespace glyph)
¤ currency symbol, Unicode: ¤ (&#164;)
' apostrophe
, comma
< less than
> greater than
\ reverse slant
| vertical bar
DEL delete


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