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 In practice it is now superseded by Unicode.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[edit]
| ISO 6438 | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| Ax | Ɓ | Ƈ | Ɗ | Ɖ | Ɛ | Ǝ | Ƒ | Ɠ | Ɣ | Ħ | Ɨ | |||||
| Bx | ɓ | ƈ | ɗ | ɖ | ɛ | ə | ƒ | ɠ | ɣ | ħ | ɪ | |||||
| Cx | Ƙ | Ŋ | Ɵ | Ɔ | Ƥ | Ʃ | ||||||||||
| Dx | ƙ | ɬ | ɱ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ɵ | ɔ | ƥ | ɽ | ʃ | |||||
| Ex | Ƭ | Ʈ | Ʊ | Ʋ | ꞳΧ | Ƴ | Ʒ | |||||||||
| Fx | ƭ | ʈ | ʊ | ʋ | ꭓχ | ƴ | ʒ | ʕ | ʔ | ʘ | ǀ | ǂ | ǃ | ǁ | ||
- ^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[edit]
- Africa Alphabet
- African reference alphabet
- Dinka alphabet
- Pan-Nigerian alphabet
- Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- "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)
