Please send (1) this application and (2) a copy of the ISCII 1991 standard to the ISO 2375 Registration Authority.


See Maintenance agencies and registration authorities at
http://www.iso.ch/infoe/agency/agenlist.html

The ISO 2375 Registration Authority is:

Ms. Toshiko Kimura (kimura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp)
ISP/ITSCJ
Room 308-3
Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg.
3-5-8, Shiba-Koen, Minato-Ku
Tokyo 105
Japan

Tel:  81-334-31-28-08
Fax:  81-334-31-64-93


Interested People

Dr. Om Vikas, Senior Director (Tech.)
Head, Computer Development Division
Ministry of Information Technology (Govt. of India)
Electronics Niketan, 6 CGO Complex
New Delhi 110 003
India
(omvikas@mit.gov.in)
Off.: Dir.:  4363076, PABX: 4364757
Fax:  0091 (11) 4363076

James Agenbroad (US Library of Congress) (jage@loc.gov)

Edwin Hart (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory) (edwin.hart@jhuapl.edu)

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                     D R A F T
         Application for 2375 Registration


Application Date  
2000-11-10

Authors  
Dr. Om Vikas and Edwin Hart


Type  
coding system not conformant to ISO/IEC 2022 and which does use the standard return.

Name  
Indian Standard 13194:1991, Indian Script Code for Information Interchange -- ISCII [ISCII-1991]

Description  
The ISCII code standard specifies a 7-bit coded character set which can be used in ISO-compatible 7-bit or 8-bit code table environments.  When used as an 8-bit code, it allows the English and one Indian script alphabet to be used simultaneously.  It includes a mechanism to change the character shapes (glyphs) to those corresponding to one Indian script alphabet versus another, e.g., Devanagari versus Bengali.  The character set covers the following Indian script alphabets:  Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

Sponsor  
Bureau of Indian Standards

Owner of Origin  
Bureau of Indian Standards

Origin  
Indian Standard 13194:1991 [ISCII-1991]

Field of Utilization  
Communication and processing of text in ten languages of India: Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu, plus English.

Additional Information:

No mapping to ISO/IEC 10646 is included.

The coded character set is not conformant to ISO/IEC 2022 and the escape sequence 2/5 4/0 does apply.

The reference document for the coded character set is:

IS 13194: 1991, Indian Script Code for Information Interchange -- ISCII, Bureau of Indian Standards, Manak Bhavan, 9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110002.