Appendix D

ANSEL Character Set

The following tables show the spacing and non-spacing diacritic characters that are contained in the ANSEL set required by the languages supported by GEDCOM 5. This table was added to give help to those receiving the GEDCOM standard on disk. The graphic characters shown are not always accurate, however the name of the diacritic and the decimal equivalent should agree with the ANSEL standard.

• C/R column refers to the column and row of the American National Standard Z39.47-1985 table showing the ANSEL character graphic and its 8 bit binary representation.

• wpcode column shows the Wordperfect (code page and character number, for example 1,2) chosen as the closest representation of the diacritic as shown in Wordperfect 5.1 Appendix P.

• Dec column shows to the decimal equivalent for that diacritic as is used in the ANSEL character set. The hexadecimal equivalent is obtained from converting the C/R column in to a to character hexadecimal number, for example 14/10 converts to EA hex or 234 dec.

• Name column gives the english name of the diacritic.

• example of use column shows an example of words using this diacritic. For the non-spacing diacritic, this mark appears before the character in which it should be superimposed.

 

ANSEL Non-spacing graphic characters

8-bit characters (required for languages supported)

C/RwpcodeDecGraphicNameexample of use
14/1 1,0 225 ` grave accent règle
14/2 1,6 226 ´ acute accent está
14/3 1,3 227 ˆ circumflex accent même
14/4 1,2 228 ˜ tilde niño
14/5 1,8 229 - macron g_j_js
14/6 1,22 230 _ breve alt_
14/7 1,15 231 × dot above _aba
14/8 1,7 232 ¨ umlaut (diaeresis) öppna
14/9 1,19 233 _ hacek v_dy
14/10 1,14 234 ° circle above (angstrom) hår
 
14/13 1,10 237 ’ high comma, off center rozdel’ovac
14/14 1,16 238 ² double acute accent id_szaki
15/0 2,15 240 _ cedilla ça
15/1 2,17 241 _ right hook viet_
 
15/6 2,7 246 _ underscore samar
15/7 2,16 247 _ left hook darzi_a
 
15/14 1,9 254 ’ high comma, centered g_otermika

ANSEL Spacing graphic characters

8-bit

C/RwpcodeDecGraphicNameexample of use
10/1 1,152 161 _ slash L—uppercase _ód_
10/2 1,80 162 Ø slash O—uppercase Øst
10/3 1,78 163 Ð slash D—uppercase Ðuro
10/4 1,88 164 Þ thorn—uppercase Þann
10/5 1,36 165 Æ ligature AE—uppercase Ægir
 
10/6 1,166 166 Œ ligature OE—uppercase Œuvre
10/7 1,6 167 ´ miagkii znak fakul´tet
10/8 1,1 168 × middle dot novel× la
10/14 1,11 174 ’ alif Un’yusho
 
11/0 2,11 176 _ ayn fa_il
11/1 1,153 177 _ slash l—lowercase rozbi_
11/2 1,81 178 ø slash o—lowercase høj
11/3 1,79 179 _ slash d—lowercase _avola
11/4 1,89 180 þ thorn—lowercase þann
 
11/5 1,37 181 æ ligature ae—lowercase skæg
11/6 1,167 182 œ ligature oe—lowercase œuvre
11/8 1,24 184 _ dotless i—lowercase masal_
11/9 4,11 185 £ British pound £5.00
11/10 1,87-86 186 ð (Ð) eth verður
 
12/3 4,23 195 © copyright mark ©1993
12/5 4,8 197 ¿ inverted question mark ¿Que
12/6 4,7 198 ¡ inverted exclamation mark ¡Esta
 
12/15 1,23 207 ß Es Zet Preußen
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Disclaimer: This HTML version of the GEDCOM 5.5 specification should be equivalent to the LDS wordperfect original. In the conversion process I have tried not to break anything however, the LDS original should always be considered the definitive version.
Clive Stubbings, October 2000