OFFICE MACHINES AND SUPPLIES - ALPHANUMERIC MACHINES - KEYBOARD ARRANGEMENT

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-1999

Publisher

Information Technology Industry Council

1 Scope and Purpose
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Purpose
2 Referenced American National Standards
3 Definitions
4 Keyboard Arrangement
  4.1 Keyboard
  4.2 Location of Keys
  4.3 Assignment of Graphic Characters or Functions
  4.4 ASCII Keyboards
  4.5 Word Processing Keyboards
  4.6 OCR-A Keyboards
  4.7 OCR-B Keyboards
  4.8 Other Applications
Figure 1 Keyboard Arrangement
Appendix Additional Characters Required in Some Applications
   A1. Introduction
   A2. ASCII Data Processing
   A3. Word Processing
   A4. OCR-A
   A5. OCR-B

Outlines the arrangement of 48 basic printing keys on keyboard and upper and lowercase characters on the keys. The character assignments are divided into five application areas, recognizing the different graphic character requirements of each application.

Committee	X3V1
DevelopmentNote	REVISION AND REDESIGNATION OF ANSI X4.23. (05/2002)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	13
PublisherName	Information Technology Industry Council
Status	Current
Supersedes	ANSI X4.14 : 1983 ANSI X4.23 : 1982

ANSI INCITS 207 : 1991 : R2007	OFFICE MACHINES & SUPPLIES - ALPHANUMERIC MACHINES - ALTERNATE KEYBOARD ARRANGEMENT
ANSI INCITS 207 : 1991 : R2002	OFFICE MACHINES & SUPPLIES - ALPHANUMERIC MACHINES - ALTERNATE KEYBOARD ARRANGEMENT