Coded Character Sets

A Technical Primer for Librarians

• A basic introduction with terminology
  • Common Internet Character Sets
    • ASCII
      • On 7-bit Matrix
      • Code Chart
    • Latin-1
      • On 8-bit Matrix
      • Code Chart
• The MARC 21 Standard
  • MARC-8 Encoding Environment
    • Basic and Extended Latin
      • On 8-bit Matrix
      • Code Chart
    • Default and Alternate Character Sets
      • Associated Standards
  • MARC Unicode Encoding Environment
    • Character Set Mappings