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[Acronym] for __I__nternational __S__tandards __O__rganisation.
-They have standards
for all kinds of fun things
, like
the filesystem for a Compact Disc (
ISO-
9660) - see
[CDROM].
+Also often used as a synonym
for [CDROM] image files
, because they usually have an <tt>.iso</tt> extension, stemming from to
the __
ISO 9660__ standard which specifies the
[CDROM] FileSystem
.
-Some other
well-known iso standards include:
-* ISO 9001 for business processes.
(Quote from slashdot: ''The important thing to remember about ISO9001 is that it's perfectly OK for an ISO9001 shop to fling completed motherboards frisbee style across the warehouse so that it hits the wall
and lands in the pile for packaging/shipping as long as that is the written procedure.'')
-* ISO
-8859 and ISO-10646 for character encodings - see iso-8859-1(7
), utf8(7) and UnicodeNotes for more discussion.
-*
[iso-3166
] country names and codes
+Some well-known (and some less well
-known but commonly encountered
) [ISO
] standards include:
-See also
: TokyoDeclaration
-----
+__ISO 646__:
:
+ A first attempt at internationalization of [ASCII] dating back to 1972. Specifies various tables which follow the [ASCII] mapping but replace a number of codepoints with accented characters. The list of replaced codepoints is 35 (0x23), 36 (0x24), 64 (0x40), 91
-94 (0x5B
-0x5E), 96 (0x60), 123
-126 (0x7B
-0x7E) (ie <tt>#</tt>, <tt>$</tt>, <tt>@</tt>, <tt>~[</tt>, <tt>\</tt>, <tt>]</tt>, <tt>^</tt>, <tt>`</tt>, <tt>{</tt>, <tt>|</tt>, <tt>}</tt> and <tt>~~</tt>). ISO 646 gained limited acceptance, but had obvious problems, and was later superseded by ISO 8859.
-Also the FileType and format for creating an
ISO-9660
[CDROM
].
+__
ISO 3166__::
+ Short names and two
-letter codes for countries. Used among others for the 2 letter [ccTLD] names such as <tt>.nz</tt>, <tt>.uk</tt> or <tt>.de</tt>. You might be able to find the list on a
[GNU/Linux
] system in <tt>/usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab</tt>
.
-----
-The
ISO-8859 man pages need some work
, since there are duplicates...
.
+ There was a minor kerfuffle in 2004(?) when some [
ISO] staffer proposed charging royalties to anyone using the 2
-letter codes in their business
, although those plans were quickly dropped following the predictable outcry
.
-# iso-
8859-1(7)
-# iso-8859-2(7)
-# iso-8859-7(7)
-# iso-8859
-15(7)
+__ISO
8859__::
+ A list of 8
-bit character encodings extending [ASCII] for various European alphabets.
-# iso_
8859-1(7)
-# iso_8859-2(7)
-# iso_8859-7(7)
-# iso_8859-15(7)
+ There are several ISO
8859 related ManPage~s; their wiki copies need some work, since there are duplicates...
-#
iso_8859_1(7)
-#
iso_8859_2(7)
-#
iso_8859_7(7)
-#
iso_8859_15(7)
+ * iso-8859-1(7) / iso_8859-1(7) /
iso_8859_1(7)
+ * iso-8859-2(7) / iso_8859-2(7) /
iso_8859_2(7)
+ * iso-8859-7(7) / iso_8859-7(7) /
iso_8859_7(7)
+ * iso-8859-15(7) / iso_8859-15(7) /
iso_8859_15(7)
+
+__ISO 9001__::
+ Quality management systems. Specifies procedures for standardizing business processes to achieve consistent quality.
+
+ ''The important thing to remember about ISO9001 is that it's perfectly OK for an ISO9001 shop to fling completed motherboards frisbee style across the warehouse so that it hits the wall and lands in the pile for packaging/shipping as long as that is the written procedure.'' — AsSeenOnSlashdot
+
+__ISO 9660__::
+ The [CDROM] FileSystem. <tt>iso</tt> is also usually the extension used for [CDROM] images.
+
+__ISO 10646__::
+ Essentially [Unicode]. See [A short overview of ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode | http://www.nada.kth.se/i18n/ucs/unicode-iso10646-oview.html], utf8(7) and UnicodeNotes for more information.
+
+See also: TokyoDeclaration
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