- GOST 10859
In 1964 the
GOST standards body of theSoviet Union defined the standard for encoding data. This standard allowed a variable character size - depending on the type of data being encoded.GOST 10859 only allowed uppercase characters. Subsequent Soviet standards included lowercase, eg:
#GOST 13052
#GOST 19768/74
#GOST 19768/87 All but one of these characters are now available in
unicode , with the exception being the "lower 10" character - "₁₀" (proposed for inclusion as "decimal exponent symbol" [http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html] ) - which was used to expressreal numbers in Scientific notation. For example: 6.0221415₁₀23.The "₁₀" character was also part of the
ALGOL programming language specifications, and was also incorporated into the then German character encoding standardALCOR . GOST 10859 also included numerous other "non-ASCII" characters/symbols useful to ALGOL programmers, eg: ∨, ∧, ⊃, ≡, ¬, ≠, ↑, ↓, ×, ÷, ≤, ≥, ° & ∅. c.f. [http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm] .The "␡" character served the same function as the "␡" in 7-bit
ASCII .4-bit code:
Binary coded decimal 7-bit code: Cyrillic & Latin upper case letters
6-bit code: with only Latin upper case letters
References
* http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/DWcodes.html#A056 - on punch card
* http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/DWcodes.html#A059 - encoded
* http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/80col.html#gost
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