AS/NZS 4395.

4:1996
ISO/IEC 9995-4:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Keyboard
layouts for text and office systems

Part 4: Numeric section

 AS/NZS 4395.4:1996

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
Telecom Australia
Telecom New Zealand

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 AS/NZS 4395.4:1996

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Keyboard
layouts for text and office systems

Part 4: Numeric section

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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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 9995-4: 1994, Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems, Part 4:
Numeric section.
The objective of this Standard is to provide designers of keyboards used in the IT environment with
various characteristics. This part specifies the numeric section, the arrangement, the number and the
location of the keys in the various zones of the numeric section.
This Standard is Part 4 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
Part 3: Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section
Part 4: Numeric section (this Standard)
Part 5: Editing section
Part 6: Function section
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Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions

Part 8: Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad.
This Standard, supersedes (in part) Australian Standard AS 2608 — 1983.
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 Standards
ISO/IEC 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 principles governing
keyboard layouts keyboard layouts

ITU-T
E.161 Arrangement of Figures, Letters and —
Symbols on Telephones and other
Devices that can be used for gaining
Access to a Telephone Network
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CONTENTS

Page

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

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

3 Normative reference .. . ... .. ... .. ... .. ... . .. . ... .. .. .. . 1

4 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

5 Arrangement and location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

6 Division into zones .. . ... .. ... .. ... .. ... . .. . ... .. .. .. .. 2

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7 Arrangement, location and functions of the keys in the numeric

zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

8 Allocation of functions to the keys of the numeric zone .......... 3

9 Arrangement, location and functions of the function zones . . . . . . . . 5

10 Allocation of functions to the keys of the function zones . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Originated in Australi a as part of AS 2608 — 1983.

Jointl y revised and redesignated in part as AS/NZS 4395.4:1996.

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AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND STANDARD
Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text
and office systems —
Part 4:
Numeric section
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1 Scope
Within the general scope described in part 1 of
ISO/IEC 9995 this part of ISO/IEC 9995 specifies
the numeric section of a keyboard and the
division of that section into zones. It specifies the
arrangement, the number, and the location of the
keys in the numeric zone ZN0 and in the function
zones ZN1 to ZN6 of the numeric section, as well
as the allocation of functions to the keys.
The numeric zone ZN0 is to be used in
keyboards for applications such as text and data
processing; general office environment; banking;
point of sales (POS); telematic services;
telephony apparatus; home electronic systems;
numerical control of machinery and equipment;
input of personal identification number (PIN); etc.
The function zones ZN1 to ZN6 are to be used in
keyboards for applications such as data entry,
text and data processing, general office
environment, etc.
NO TE 1 Certain of these applications are under the re-
sponsibility of the ITU-T.
2 Conformance
Equipment is in conformance with this part of
ISO/IEC 9995 if it meets the requirements of
clauses 5 to 10 and either 8.1 or 8.2.
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3 Normative references
The followingstandards contain provisionswhich,
through reference in this text, constitute
provisions of this part of ISO/IEC 9995. At the
time of publication, the editions indicated were
valid. All standards are subject to revision, and
parties to agreements based on this part of
ISO/IEC 9995 are encouraged to investigate the
possibility of applying the most recent editions of
the standards indicated below. Members of IEC
and ISO maintain registers of currently valid
International Standards.
ISO/IEC 9995-1 :1994, Information technology—
Keyboard layouts for text and office systems —
Part 1: General principles governing keyboard
layouts.
CCITT Recommendation E.161, Arrangement of
Figures, Letters and Symbols on Telephones and
other Devices that can be used for gaining
Access to a Telephone Network.
4 Definitions
For the purposes of this part of ISO/IEC 9995,
the definitions given in ISO/IEC 9995-1 apply.
5 Arrangement and location
The numeric section is generally a rectangular ar-
rangement of keys located to the right of the
alphanumeric section and the editing section and
below a part of the function section, see
ISO/IEC 9995-1.
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