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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 ...
An iota subscript (ͺ) was also added to ISO 8859-7 at 0xAA; this remains unallocated in Windows-1253. Several further characters are added at their Windows-1252 locations, although the rest do not collide with ISO 8859-7. IBM uses code page 1253 (CCSID 1253 and euro sign extended CCSID 5349) for Windows-1253. [5] [6] [7]
Code page 869 (CCSID 869) (CP 869, IBM 869, OEM 869) is a code page used under DOS to write Greek [2] and may also be used to get Greek letters for other uses such as math. [citation needed] It is also called DOS Greek 2. [3] It was designed to include all characters from ISO 8859-7. Code page 869 was not as popular as code page 737. [citation ...
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).
Code page 737 (CCSID 737) [1] (also known as CP 737, IBM 00737, and OEM 737, [2] MS-DOS Greek [3]) is a code page used under DOS to write the Greek language. [4] It was much more popular than code page 869 although it lacks the letters ΐ and ΰ.
A character set is a collection of elements used to represent text. [9] [10] For example, the Latin alphabet and Greek alphabet are both character sets. A coded character set is a character set mapped to a set of unique numbers. [10] For historical reasons, this is also often referred to as a code page. [9]
ELOT 927 is 7-bit character set standardized by ELOT, the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (HOS). [1] It is also known as ISO-IR-88 , [ 2 ] CSISO88GREEK7 or 7-bit DEC Greek . [ 3 ] The standard was withdrawn in November 1986.
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.