ANSEL
From HandWiki - Reading time: 5 min
| Alias(es) | ISO-IR 231 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ANSI/NISO Z39.47 (withdrawn) |
| Classification | Extended ASCII, 8-bit encoding |
| Extends | US-ASCII |
| Extensions | MARC Extended Latin, GEDCOM ANSEL |
ANSEL, the American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use, was a character set used in text encoding. It provided a table of coded values for the representation of characters of the extended Latin alphabet in machine-readable form for thirty-five languages written in the Latin alphabet and for fifty-one romanized languages. ANSEL adds 63 graphic characters to ASCII,[1] including 29 combining diacritic characters.
The initial revision of ANSEL was released in 1985, and before 1993 it was registered as Registration #231 in the ISO International Register of Coded Character Sets to be Used with Escape Sequences.[2] The standard was reaffirmed in 2003 although it has been administratively withdrawn by ANSI effective 14 February 2013.[3]
The requirement of hardware capable of overprinting accents doomed this from ever becoming a popular extended ASCII.[citation needed]
Code page layout
The following table shows ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R2003).[3] Non-ASCII characters are shown with their Unicode code point. A combining diacritic precedes the spacing character on which it should be superimposed[1] (in Unicode the combining diacritic is after the base character).
| ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R2003) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| NUL | SOH | STX | ETX | EOT | ENQ | ACK | BEL | BS | HT | LF | VT | FF | CR | SO | SI | |
| DLE | DC1 | DC2 | DC3 | DC4 | NAK | SYN | ETB | CAN | EM | SUB | ESC | FS | GS | RS | US | |
| SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / | |
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ? | |
| @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | |
| P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | ||
| ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | |
| p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | DEL | |
| Ł 0141 |
Ø 00D8 |
Đ 0110 |
Þ 00DE |
Æ 00C6 |
Π0152 |
ʹ 02B9 |
· 00B7 |
♭ 266D |
® 00AE |
± 00B1 |
Ơ 01A0 |
Ư 01AF |
ʼ 02BC |
|||
| ʻ 02BB |
ł 0142 |
ø 00F8 |
đ 0111 |
þ 00FE |
æ 00E6 |
œ 0153 |
ʺ 02BA |
ı 0131 |
£ 00A3 |
ð 00F0 |
ơ 01A1 |
ư 01B0 |
||||
| ° 00B0 |
ℓ 2113 |
℗ 2117 |
© 00A9 |
♯ 266F |
¿ 00BF |
¡ 00A1 |
||||||||||
| ◌̉ 0309 |
◌̀ 0300 |
◌́ 0301 |
◌̂ 0302 |
◌̃ 0303 |
◌̄ 0304 |
◌̆ 0306 |
◌̇ 0307 |
◌̈ 0308 |
◌̌ 030C |
◌̊ 030A |
◌︠ FE20 |
◌︡ FE21 |
◌̕ 0315 |
◌̋ 030B |
◌̐ 0310 | |
| ◌̧ 0327 |
◌̨ 0328 |
◌̣ 0323 |
◌̤ 0324 |
◌̥ 0325 |
◌̳ 0333 |
◌̲ 0332 |
◌̦ 0326 |
◌̜ 031C |
◌̮ 032E |
◌︢ FE22 |
◌︣ FE23 |
◌̓ 0313 |
||||
Use
GEDCOM
The GEDCOM specification for exchanging genealogical data refers to ANSEL (ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1985) as a valid text encoding for GEDCOM files and extends it with additional characters which are shown in the following table.[4][5]
| Hex | Unicode | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0xBE | 25A1 | □ | empty box |
| 0xBF | 25A0 | ■ | black box |
| 0xCD | 0065 | e | midline e |
| 0xCE | 006F | o | midline o |
| 0xCF | 00DF | ß | es zet |
| 0xFC | 0338 | ̸ | diacritic slash through char |
MARC21
The Extended Latin character set from MARC 21 is synchronized with ANSEL[2] but additionally supports the eszett (ß) character at C7 and the euro sign (€) at C8.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Template:Cite tech report
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "International Register Of Coded Character Sets To Be Used With Escape Sequences (Registration Listing Ordered By Registration Number)". Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan. http://kikaku.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/overview.htm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Project Overview: ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R2003) Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (ANSEL) (Inactive)". National Information Standards Organization. http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/project/details.php?project_id=10.
- ↑ Template:Cite tech report
- ↑ Template:Cite tech report
- ↑ "MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media: Code Table Extended Latin (ANSEL)". Library of Congress. December 2007. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/codetables/45.html.
External links
- National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1985
- ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R2003)
- ISO-IR 231
- MARC 21 Code Table Extended Latin (ANSEL)
 |  |
EncycloReader
is supported by the 
KSF