BS ISO 11822:1996

This standard BS ISO 11822:1996 Information and documentation. Extension of the Arabic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange is classified in these ICS categories:

• 35.040.10 Coding of character sets

1.1 This International Standard specifies a set of 90 graphic characters with their coded representations. It consists of a code table and a legend showing character codes, graphics and character names. Explanatory notes are also included. The character set is primarily intended for the interchange of information among data processing systems and within message transmission systems.

1.2 These characters, together with characters in the international reference version of ISO 9036, constitute a character set for the international interchange of bibliographic citations, including their annotations, in the Arabic script. The sets may be used in a 7-bit or an 8-bit environment in accordance with ISO/IEC 2022.

1.3 This character set, with characters from ISO 9036 (see annex A), is intended for information in the following languages:

Adighe	Farsi	Malay
Arabic	Hausa	Moplah
Avaric	Kashmiri	Pushto
Baluchi	Kirghiz	Sindhi
Berber	Kurdish	Turkish
Coptic	Lahnda	Uighur
Dargwa	Lak	Urdu

1.4 The graphic representation of characters defined in this International Standard are given in their isolated forms only. Initial, medial, and final forms, as well as special presentation forms which occur in ligatures are not within the scope of this International Standard.