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Approved Standard Encodings

The following are the approved standard encodings to be used with Compound Text. Note that none have Intermediate characters; however, a good parser will still deal with Intermediate characters in the event that additional encodings are later added to this list.

{I} F94/96Description
4/0294 7-bit ASCII graphics (ANSI X3.4-1968), Left half of ISO 8859 sets
04/0994 Right half of JIS X0201-1976 (reaffirmed 1984), 8-Bit Alphanumeric-Katakana Code
04/1094 Left half of JIS X0201-1976 (reaffirmed 1984), 8-Bit Alphanumeric-Katakana Code
04/0196Right half of ISO 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1
04/0296Right half of ISO 8859-2, Latin alphabet No. 2
04/0396Right half of ISO 8859-3, Latin alphabet No. 3
04/0496Right half of ISO 8859-4, Latin alphabet No. 4
04/0696Right half of ISO 8859-7, Latin/Greek alphabet
04/0796Right half of ISO 8859-6, Latin/Arabic alphabet
04/0896Right half of ISO 8859-8, Latin/Hebrew alphabet
04/1296Right half of ISO 8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic alphabet
04/1396Right half of ISO 8859-9, Latin alphabet No. 5
04/01942GB2312-1980, China (PRC) Hanzi
04/02942JIS X0208-1983, Japanese Graphic Character Set
04/03942KS C5601-1987, Korean Graphic Character Set

The sets listed as "Left half of ..." should always be defined as GL. The sets listed as "Right half of ..." should always be defined as GR. Other sets can be defined either as GL or GR.