IS 13194 : 1991 Indian Script Code for Information Interchange - ISCII

UDC 681.3                                                    LTD37

Reaffirmed 2020

1 Scope

The ISCII code standard specifies a 7-bit code table which can be used in 7 or 8-bit ISO compatible environment. It allows English and Indian script alphabets to be used simultaneously.

It shall not be used in incompatible environments like that of IBM-PC, and with computers which do not allow 8-bit characters, or which do not follow ISO code extension techniques.

It cannot be used in the 5-bit Baudot code used for telecommunications. However transcoding to Baudot is possible as given in Annex-H.