AS/NZS 4395.

3:1996
ISO/IEC 9995-3:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Keyboard
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Part 3: Complementary layouts of

the alphanumeric zone of the
alphanumeric section
 AS/NZS 4395.3:1996

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 20 December 1995 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 3 May 1996. It was published on 5 May 1996.
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The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Bankers’ Association

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Science and Technology, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Telstra, Australia
Telecom, New Zealand

Review of Standards. To keep abreast of progress in industry, Joint Australian/

New Zealand Standards are subject to periodic review and are kept up to date by the
issue of amendments or new editions as necessary. It is important therefore that
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amendments thereto.
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Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Keyboard
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee
IT/1 on Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from
ISO/IEC 9995-3:1994, Information technology—Keyboard layouts for text and office systems,
Part 3: Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section.
The objective of this Standard is to provide designers of keyboards used in the IT environment
with various characteristics. This part defines allocation of a set of graphic characters which, when
used in combination with an existing national version keyboard layout, allows the input of the full
graphic character repertoire as defined in AS 2793.
This Standard is Part 3 of AS/NZS 4395, Information technology—Keyboard layouts for text and
office systems, which is published in Parts as follows:
Part 1: General principles governing keyboard layouts
Part 2: Alphanumeric section
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Part 3: Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section (this
Standard)
Part 4: Numeric section
Part 5: Editing section
Part 6: Function section
Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions
Part 8: Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad.
Users of this Standard are advised by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand, under
arrangements made with ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, that the
number of this Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the cover
and title pages.
For the purpose of this Standard, the source text should be modified as follows:
(a) Terminology The words ‘this Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words
‘this International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(b) Decimal marker Substitute a full point for a comma where it appears as a decimal marker.
(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where
appropriate, to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint

or other publication Australian/New Zealand Standard
ISO/IEC AS
646 Information technology— 1776 Information processing—
ISO 7-bit coded character set for 7-bit coded character set for
information interchange information interchange
6937 Information technology— —
Coded graphic character set for text
communication—Latin alphabet
AS/NZS
9995 Information technology— 4395 Information technology—
Keyboard layouts for text and office Keyboard layouts for text and office
systems systems
9995-1 Part 1: General principles governing 4395.1 Part 1: General principals governing
keyboard layouts keyboard layouts
10367 Information technology— —
Standardized coded graphic character
sets for use in 8-bit codes
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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

4 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

5 Common secondary group layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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6 Complementary Latin group layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND STANDARD

Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text

and office systems —

Part 3:
Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the
alphanumeric section
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1 Scope — a national keyboard standard;

Within the general scope described in part 1 of
ISO/IEC 9995, this part of ISO/IEC 9995 defines in
clause 5 the allocation on a keyboard of a set of
graphic characters which, when used in combination
with an existing national version keyboard layout or
the complementary Latin group layout as defined in
clause 6 of this part of ISO/IEC 9995, allows the
input of the full graphic character repertoire defined
in ISO /IEC 6937.
— a national keyboard layout established by
common usage in a particular country;
— the complementary Latin group layout as defined
in clause 6 of this part of ISO/IEC 9995.
NOTE 2 Refer to annex A of part 2 of ISO/I EC 9995 for
examples of allocati ons of graphic characters to the primary
group of the alphanumeri c zone of the alphanumeric
section.

NOTE 1 The full repertoir e of ISO/I EC 6937 permit s the

Any statement of conformance to this International
representation of 40 recognized European languages (plus
Afri kaans) using a Lati n-based alphabet.
Standard shall be taken to imply that the complete
common secondary group layout (Group 2} has been
implemented, unless a subset is explicitly declared,
This part of ISO/IEC 9995 is primarily intended for
provided that all other requirements of clause 5 are
word-processing and text-processing applications.
respected.

2 Conformance
3 Normative references
The layout of a keyboard conforms to this part of
The following standards contain provisions which,
ISO/IEC 9995 if the allocation of the graphic charac-
through reference in this text, constitute provisions of
ters of the common secondary group (group 2) is as
this part of ISO /IEC 9995. At the time of publication,
defined in clause 5 of this part of ISO /IEC 9995, and
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are
if the allocation of the graphic characters of the pri-
subject to revision, and parties to agreements based
mary group (group 1) conforms to one of the
on this part of ISO/IEC 9995 are encouraged to
following layouts:
investigate the possibility of applying the most recent

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