This information is a follow-up to the article on ISO Standards that appeared in Computer Shopper magazine in the UK (Issue 129, dated 1998-November, on Pages 793 to 797 inclusive). It comprises some additional tables, followed by a number of links to Internet sites with various further standards information.
This file was originally located at: <http://www.aegis1.demon.co.uk/standard/cs129s.htm>
The following information adds to that printed in the article. For reasons of space, the first table was reduced in size in the magazine. A number of items were omitted. It is reproduced here in full. The other three tables were completely omitted from the printed article for the same reason, and are included here for completeness.
International | British | |
ISO 31-0 | Specification For Quantities, Units and Symbols | BS 5775-0 |
ISO 639 | Representation of Names of Languages | BS 3862 |
ISO 646 | 7-bit Coded Character Set For Information Interchange | n/a |
ISO 2022 | ISO 7-bit and 8-bit Coded Character Set - Code Extension Techniques | n/a |
ISO 3166 | Representation of Countries | BS EN ISO 3166 |
ISO 4217 | Representation of Currencies and Funds | BS EN 24217 |
ISO 4873 | Information Processing - ISO 8-bit Code For Information Interchange - Structure and Rules For Implementation | n/a |
ISO 5218 | Representation of Human Sexes | BS 5249-2 |
ISO 6709 | Representation of Latitude, Longitude, Altitude | BS 5249-3 |
ISO 6937-2 | Information Processing - Coded Character Sets For Text Communication | n/a |
ISO 7372 | Electronic Communication of Address Data | n/a |
ISO 8601 | Representation of Date and Time | BS EN 28601 |
ISO 8652 | The ADA Programming Language | BS 7145 |
ISO 8859 | 8-bit Coded Character Set Extensions (10 parts) | BS 7203 |
ISO 8879 | SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) | BS 6868 |
ISO 9069 | SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) | BS 7138 |
ISO 9127 | User Documentation and Cover Information For Consumer Software Packages | BS 7137 |
ISO 9660 | CD-ROM Volume and File Structure | BS 7061 |
ISO 9899 | The 'C' Programming Language | n/a |
ISO 10646 | The UCS (32-bit) and UCS-2 (16-bit, UniCode) Character Sets | BS ISO 10646 |
ISO 10744 | The 'HyTime' Extensions to SGML | BS ISO 10744 |
ISO 11172 | The MPEG Video Standard | BS EN ISO 11172 |
ISO 11180 | Postal Addressing Rules for Various Countries (Address Structure etc) | n/a |
n/a | Representation of UK Counties | BS 6879 |
- | Key: ISO = International EN = EuroNorm BS = British Standard. | - |
Country | Alpha-2 | Alpha-3 | Numeric |
France | FR | FRA | 250 |
Liberia | LR | LBR | 430 |
Spain | ES | ESP | 724 |
United Kingdom | GB | GBR | 826 |
United States | US | USA | 840 |
Sub-entity | Alpha-2 | Alpha-3 | Numeric | Location |
England | EN | ENG | 0015 | - |
Dorset | DO | DOR | 1200 | ENG |
Essex | EE | ESS | 1500 | ENG |
Fife Region | FF | FIF | 8500 | SCT |
Norfolk | NK | NFK | 2600 | ENG |
Scotland | SC | SCT | 0019 | - |
These codes are intended for use only within Great Britain. When used internationally, the 'sub-entities' should be prefixed with the appropriate two-letter ISO 3166 Country ID and a hyphen; eg 'GB-DOR' for Dorset.
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Value | Meaning |
0 | Not Known |
1 | Male |
2 | Female |
9 | Not Specified |
Sites that appear in Red indicate that the address has recently failed. Where possible the new address is shown in the following entry, otherwise I am still looking for suitable Web Page links to include here. Sites come and go all the time. It isn't possible to always be up to date.
As usual, you can explore the other contents on each of these sites by simply reducing the address back to each '/' marker, one at a time.
Ian Galpin 1998 November 10.