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.
| 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| Standard | ANSI/NISO Z39.47 (withdrawn) |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 |
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Sets to be Used with Escape Sequences.[2] The standard was reaffirmed in 2003 although it has been administratively withdrawn by ANSI effective 14 February 2013.[3]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
editThe 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).
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 0x | NUL | SOH | STX | ETX | EOT | ENQ | ACK | BEL | BS | HT | LF | VT | FF | CR | SO | SI |
| 1x | DLE | DC1 | DC2 | DC3 | DC4 | NAK | SYN | ETB | CAN | EM | SUB | ESC | FS | GS | RS | US |
| 2x | SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 3x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ? |
| 4x | @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O |
| 5x | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _ |
| 6x | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o |
| 7x | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | DEL |
| 8x | ||||||||||||||||
| 9x | ||||||||||||||||
| Ax | Ł 0141 |
Ø 00D8 |
Đ 0110 |
Þ 00DE |
Æ 00C6 |
Π0152 |
ʹ 02B9 |
· 00B7 |
♭ 266D |
® 00AE |
± 00B1 |
Ơ 01A0 |
Ư 01AF |
ʼ 02BC |
||
| Bx | 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 |
|||
| Cx | ° 00B0 |
ℓ 2113 |
℗ 2117 |
© 00A9 |
♯ 266F |
¿ 00BF |
¡ 00A1 |
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| Dx | ||||||||||||||||
| Ex | ◌̉ 0309 |
◌̀ 0300 |
◌́ 0301 |
◌̂ 0302 |
◌̃ 0303 |
◌̄ 0304 |
◌̆ 0306 |
◌̇ 0307 |
◌̈ 0308 |
◌̌ 030C |
◌̊ 030A |
◌︠ FE20 |
◌︡ FE21 |
◌̕ 0315 |
◌̋ 030B |
◌̐ 0310 |
| Fx | ◌̧ 0327 |
◌̨ 0328 |
◌̣ 0323 |
◌̤ 0324 |
◌̥ 0325 |
◌̳ 0333 |
◌̲ 0332 |
◌̦ 0326 |
◌̜ 031C |
◌̮ 032E |
◌︢ FE22 |
◌︣ FE23 |
◌̓ 0313 |
Use
editGEDCOM
editThe 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
editThe 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
edit- ^ a b Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (PDF) (National information standard specification). 1993 (R2003). Bethesda, Maryland: NISO Press. 3 May 1993. ISBN 1-880124-02-5. ISSN 1041-5653. OCLC 25546245. OL 12137795M. ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R2003). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ a b "International Register Of Coded Character Sets To Be Used With Escape Sequences (Registration Listing Ordered By Registration Number)". International Register Of Coded Character Sets To Be Used With Escape Sequences. Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan. Archived from the original on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Project Overview: ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R2003) Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (ANSEL) (Inactive)". National Information Standards Organization. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Department (2 December 1995). "Appendix D: ANSEL Character Set". The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5 (Information standard specification). Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. pp. 87–89.
- ^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Department (4 November 1993). The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.3 (Information standard specification). Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. pp. 67–72.
- ^ "MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media: Code Table Extended Latin (ANSEL)". Library Standards at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress. December 2007.