ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999

Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet

Scope

This part of ISO/IEC 8859 specifies a set of 191
coded graphic characters identified as the Latin/
Cyrillic alphabet.
This set of coded graphic characters is intended for
use in data and text processing applications and
also for information interchange.
The set contains graphic characters used for
general purpose applications in typical office
environments in at least the following languages:
Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English, Latin, (Slavic)
Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian.
NOTE ? Two letters recently added to the Ukrainian
official alphabet are not included in the character set of
this part. For a background the CEN/CENELEC/PT004
Report may be consulted (in Bibliography).
This set of coded graphic characters may be
regarded as a version of an 8-bit code according to
ISO/IEC 2022 or ISO/IEC 4873 at level 1.
This part of ISO/IEC 8859 may not be used in
conjunction with any other parts of ISO/IEC 8859.
If coded characters from more than one part are to
be used together, by means of code extension
techniques, the equivalent coded character sets
from ISO/IEC 10367 should be used instead within
a version of ISO/IEC 4873 at level 2 or level 3.
The coded characters in this set may be used in
conjunction with coded control functions selected
from ISO/IEC 6429. However, control functions are
not used to create composite graphic symbols from
two or more graphic characters (see clause 6).
NOTE ? ISO/IEC 8859 is not intended for use with
Telematic services defined by ITU-T. If information coded
according to ISO/IEC 8859 is to be transferred to such
services, it will have to conform to the requirements of
those services at the access-point.

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