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. It has had little use (such as being available through UNIMARC[1]). In practice it is now superseded by Unicode.
Character set
| _0 | _1 | _2 | _3 | _4 | _5 | _6 | _7 | _8 | _9 | _A | _B | _C | _D | _E | _F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A_ 160 | Ɓ 0181 | Ƈ 0187 | Ɗ 018A | Ɖ 0189 | Ɛ 0190 | Ǝ 018E | Ƒ 0191 | Ɠ 0193 | Ɣ 0194 | Ħ 0126 | Ɨ 0197 | |||||
| B_ 176 | ɓ 0253 | ƈ 0188 | ɗ 0257 | ɖ 0256 | ɛ 025B | ə 0259 | ƒ 0192 | ɠ 0260 | ɣ 0263 | ħ 0127 | ɪ 026A | |||||
| C_ 192 | Ƙ 0198 | Ŋ 014A | Ɵ 019F | Ɔ 0186 | Ƥ 01A4 | Ʃ 01A9 | ||||||||||
| D_ 208 | ƙ 0199 | ɬ 026C | ɱ 0271 | ɳ 0273 | ɲ 0272 | ŋ 014B | ɵ 0275 | ɔ 0254 | ƥ 01A5 | ɽ 027D | ʃ 0283 | |||||
| E_ 224 | Ƭ 01AC | Ʈ 01AE | Ʊ 01B1 | Ʋ 01B2 | ꞳΧ A7B3 | Ƴ 01B3 | Ʒ 01B7 | |||||||||
| F_ 240 | ƭ 01AD | ʈ 0288 | ʊ 028A | ʋ 028B | ꭓχ AB53 | ƴ 01B4 | ʒ 0292 | ʕ 0295 | ʔ 0294 | ʘ 0298 | ǀ 01C0 | ǂ 01C2 | ǃ 01C3 | ǁ 01C1 |
Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined
- ^Χ Prior to Unicode 8.0, the character 0xE5 mapped to Χ, Unicode character U+03A5. Prior to Unicode 7.0, the character 0xF5 mapped to χ, Unicode character U+03C5.
See also
- Africa Alphabet
- African reference alphabet
- Dinka alphabet
- Pan-Nigerian alphabet
- Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
Notes
References
- "Coded Character Set for African Languages" (June 15, 1979)
- ISO 6438:1983 "Documentation -- African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange"
- "Application for Registration No.216, Extended African Latin alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3129; Date: 1998-07-06)
- "Status of ISO/TC 46/SC 4 Character Sets Projects" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3434; Date: 2000-04-18)