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Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), [1] commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 [2] or abbreviated as cp1253, [3] [4] is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek .
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. [2] It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern Greek language. The ...
Code page 737 (CCSID 737) [1] (also known as CP 737, IBM 00737, and OEM 737, [2] MS-DOS Greek [3] or 437 G [4]) is a code page used under DOS to write the Greek language. [5] It was much more popular than code page 869 although it lacks the letters ΐ and ΰ.
Several 8-bit character sets (encodings) were designed for binary representation of common Western European languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic), which use the Latin alphabet, a few additional letters and ones with precomposed diacritics, some punctuation, and various symbols (including some Greek letters).
This 7-bit encoding allows the transport of texts consisting of printable characters from Basic Latin (Unicode block) (with the exception of the grave accent/backtick), as well as some characters of the ISO Latin 1 character set. It also allows the encoding of texts written in the Greek script, but only capitals; for such use in Greek, the ...
ISO 5428:1984, Greek alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, is an ISO standard for an 8-bit character encoding for the modern Greek language. It contains a set of 73 graphic characters and is available through UNIMARC. [1] In practice it is now superseded by Unicode.
Beta Code was a method of representing, using only ASCII characters, the characters, accents, and formatting found in ancient Greek texts (and other ancient languages). Its aim was to be not merely a romanization of the Greek alphabet, but to represent faithfully a wide variety of source texts – including formatting as well as rare or idiosyncratic characters.
It is also known as ISO-IR-88, [2] CSISO88GREEK7 or 7-bit DEC Greek. [3] The standard was withdrawn in November 1986. Support for it was implemented in various dot matrix printers (for example by Fujitsu [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] ) and line printers (for example by Printronix [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and Siemens ) as well as in computer terminals (for example ...