ISO 9995

ISO/IEC 9995 "Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems" (en français : Technologies de l'information -- Disposition des claviers conçus pour la bureautique) is a standard defining layouts of computer keyboards. The standard has several parts as of 2015: 9 active and one draft; another one was withdrawn in 2009 (apparently merged into another).

ISO/IEC 9995 defines a keyboard as having three groups of key assignments:

• Group 1 is the basic layer with a base and shift (lower and upper case)
• Group 2 is the national layer with a base and shift. There is a locking shift to access this.
• Group 3 allows for supplemental characters to be entered. This is a single plane and uses a non-locking shift.

Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems / Technologies de l'information -- Disposition des claviers conçus pour la bureautique :

1. ISO/IEC 9995-1:2009
   • EN General principles governing keyboard layouts http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51645
   • FR Principes généraux pour la disposition des claviers http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51645
2. ISO/IEC 9995-2:2009
   • EN Alphanumeric section http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51644
   • FR Module alphanumérique http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51644
3. ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010
   • EN Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=52869
   • FR Dispositions complémentaires de la zone alphanumérique du module alphanumérique http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=52869
4. ISO/IEC 9995-4:2009
   • EN Numeric section http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51643
   • FR Module numérique http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51643
5. ISO/IEC 9995-5:2009
   • EN Editing and function section http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51642
   • FR Module d'édition et de fonctions http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51642
6. ISO/IEC 9995-6:2006 (replaced by ISO/IEC 9995-5:2009)
7. ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009
   • EN Symbols used to represent functions http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51640
   • FR Symboles employés pour la représentation de fonctions http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51640
8. ISO/IEC 9995-8:2009
   • EN Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51641
   • FR Affectation de lettres aux touches d'un pavé numérique http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=51641
9. ISO/IEC PRF 9995-9 (in development)
   • EN Multilingual, multiscript keyboard layouts http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54374
   • FR Dispositions de claviers multilingues et multi-écritures http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54374
10. ISO/IEC 9995-10:2013
    • EN Conventional symbols and methods to represent graphic characters not uniquely recognizable by their glyph on keyboards and in documentation http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=55685
    • FR Symboles et méthodes conventionnelles pour représenter sur claviers et dans la documentation des caractères graphiques non reconnaissables de manière univoque par leur glyphe http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=55685
11. ISO/IEC 9995-11:2015
    • EN Functionality of dead keys and repertoires of characters entered by dead keys http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=62887
    • FR Fonctionnalité des touches mortes et répertoires de caractères entrés par touches mortes http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=62887

Other references & links

• Wikipedia
  • EN "ISO/IEC 9995" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995
  • FR "ISO/CEI 9995" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/CEI_9995
  • YO "ISO/IEC 9995" https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995

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