IS 9609 : Part 1 : 2006 /ISO 3098-2 : 2000 Technical Product Documentation - Lettering Part 1 Latin Alphabet, Numerals and Marks

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part 1) (Second Revision) which is identical with ISO 3098-2:2000 Technicalproduct documentation - Lettering - Part 2: Latin alphabet, numerals and marks issued by theInternational Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards onthe recommendation of the Drawings Sectional Committee and approval of the Production and GeneralEngineering Division Council.

IS 9609 (Part 1) :1983 Lettering for technical drawings: Part 1 English lettering (first revkion) which isidentical with ISO 3098-1 :1974 was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards in 1983. SubsequentlyAmendment No. 1 was issued in June 1986 rewording the title as Lettering on technical drawings -Part 1 : English characters and ISO title as Technical drawings - Lettering - Part 1 : Currentlyused characters . IS 9609:1983 was also renumbered as IS 9609 (Part 1) :1983.

Now ISO has rearranged all the parts of ISO 3098 and this second edition of ISO 3098-2:2000 cancelsand replaces the first edition of ISO 3098-1 :1974 and titled as Technical product documentation -Lettering - Part 2: Latin alphabet, numerals and marks .

This Part 2 of ISO 3098 has been renumbered as Part 1 in order to maintain the sequence of partnumbers of IS 9609 series of IS Standards,

This standard specifies the Latin alphabet, numerals and marks for use on technical drawingsand associated documents with. It primarily concerns letters written with the aid of stencils, but isequally applicable to freehand lettering or other appropriate methods.

The other parts in this series are:

Part O General requirements

Part 2 Greek alphabet (first revision)

Part 3 Diacritical and particular marks for the Latin alphabet (first revision)

Part 4 Cyrillic alphabet (first revision)

Part 5 Amplified devnagri letters

Part 6 CAD lettering of the Latin alphabet, numerals and marks

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard withoutdeviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attentionis particularly drawn to the folIowing:

a) Wherever the words International Standard appear referring to this standard, they shouldbe read as Indian Standard .

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

In this adopted standard, reference appears to the following International Standard. for which IndianStandard also exists. The corres~onding Indian Standard which is to be substituted in its place is listedbelow along with its degree of equivalence for the edition indicated: