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[Acronym] for __I__nternational __S__tandards __O__rganisation.

-Also often used as a synonym for [CDROM] image files, because they usually have an <tt>.iso</tt> extension, ~~harkening back~~ to the __ISO 9660__ standard which specifies the [CDROM] FileSystem.

+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 well-known (and some less well-known but commonly encountered) [ISO] standards include:

+

+__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 ISO 646 gained limited acceptance, but had obvious problems, and was later superseded by ISO 8859.

__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>.

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''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.

+ The [CDROM] FileSystem. <tt>iso</tt> is also usually the extension used for CompactDisc 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.