ICS 35.040.00                                                                   LTD 37

Reaffirmed 2020

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical with ISO/IEC 2022 : 1994 ‘Information technology - Character code structure and extension techniques’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) jointly was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendations of the Computer Hardware Sectional Committee and approval of the Electronics and Information Technology Division Council.

The text of the ISO/IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

The technical committee responsible for the preparation of this standard has reviewed the provisions of the following International Standards and has decided that these are acceptable for use in conjunction with this standard: