Coded Character Sets

MARC 21 Standard - MARC-8 Environment
Default and Alternate Character Sets

Character Set	Standard Number	Standard Title
Basic Latin	ANSI X3.4	American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Extended Latin	ANSI/NISO Z39.47	Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (ANSEL)
Basic Arabic	ISO 9036 *	Coded Arabic Character Set for Information Interchange
Extended Arabic	ISO 11822	Extension of the Arabic Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Information Interchange
Basic Cyrillic
Extended Cyrillic	ISO 5427	Extension of the Cyrillic Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Information Interchange
Basic Greek	ISO 5428	Greek Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Information Interchange
Basic Hebrew	ISO 8957	Hebrew Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Information Interchange
East Asian	NISO Z39.64	East Asian Character Code for Bibliographic Use (EACC)
[Escape techniques]	ANSI X3.41 / ISO 2022	Code Extension Techniques for Use with 7-bit and 8-bit Character Sets

* The MARC-8 "Basic Arabic" character set differs slightly from ISO 9036.