ISO/IEC 8859-7
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ISO/IEC 8859-7 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for the modern Greek language and related symbols.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
8-bit single-byte character encoding
ⓘ
ISO/IEC 8859 series member ⓘ character encoding standard ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
ECMA-118
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ISO 8859-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin/Greek ⓘ |
| basedOn | ECMA-118 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 8-bit ⓘ |
| category | 8-bit extended ASCII ⓘ |
| characterSetSize | 256 code points ⓘ |
| codeUnitSize | 1 byte ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | ASCII for code points 0–127 ⓘ |
| definesControlArea |
C0 controls at 0–31
ⓘ
C1 controls at 128–159 ⓘ |
| doesNotFullySupport | polytonic Greek orthography ⓘ |
| encodingType | single-byte character encoding ⓘ |
| firstEditionYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| hasCodePageRelationship | Windows-1253 (similar but not identical) ⓘ |
| IANACharsetName | ISO-8859-7 ⓘ |
| IANAStatus | preferred MIME name ⓘ |
| includesCharacterCategory |
Greek capital letters
ⓘ
Greek diacritics ⓘ Greek small letters ⓘ currency symbols ⓘ mathematical symbols ⓘ punctuation ⓘ |
| intendedUse | encoding modern Greek text ⓘ |
| lowerHalfRange | 0–127 identical to ASCII ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
ISO/IEC JTC 1
NERFINISHED
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International Electrotechnical Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ International Organization for Standardization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mimetype | ISO-8859-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | ISO/IEC 8859 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageCoverage | modern Greek ⓘ |
| regionOfUse |
Cyprus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revisedEditionYear |
2003
ⓘ
2003-10-15 ⓘ |
| scriptCoverage |
Greek script
ⓘ
Latin script (basic ASCII subset) ⓘ |
| standardizes | mapping between byte values and Greek characters ⓘ |
| standardNumber | ISO/IEC 8859-7 ⓘ |
| status | legacy encoding ⓘ |
| supersededInManyContextsBy | Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports | monotonic Greek orthography ⓘ |
| upperHalfRange | 128–255 Greek and additional symbols ⓘ |
| usedFor |
email and network protocols supporting ISO-8859 charsets
ⓘ
legacy Greek-language documents ⓘ |
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