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ISO Charsets for Publishing

These lists were developed to test the display of Unicode characters by browsers/operating system combinations for the PubMed Central project.

The lists below are the ISO character sets that are generally used in publishing. If a character displays as a question mark or a white rectangle (that is not supposed to be a question mark or a white rectangle), then your browser/operating system combination does not have a glyph assigned to that Unicode number.

You will see the best results with Netscape 7.

Alphabetic list of the following unicode characters by entity name.
<!ENTITY % ISOlat1 PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOlat2 PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 2//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOnum PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOpub PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Publishing//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOgrk1 PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Greek Letters//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOgrk2 PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Monotoniko Greek//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOtech PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES General Technical//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOdia PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Diacritical Marks//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOAMSO PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Ordinary //EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOAMSR PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Relations //EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOamsr PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Relations//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOamsn PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Negated Relations//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOAMSA PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Arrow Relations //EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOAMSB PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Binary Operators //EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOamsc PUBLIC "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Math Symbols: Delimiters//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOmopf PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Math Alphabets: Open Face//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOmscr PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Math Alphabets: Script//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOmfrk PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Math Alphabets: Fraktur//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISObox PUBLIC "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Box and Line Drawing//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOcyr1 PUBLIC "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Russian Cyrillic//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOcyr2 PUBLIC "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Non-Russian Cyrillic//EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOGRK3 PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Greek Symbols //EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOGRK4 PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES Alternative Greek Symbols //EN">
<!ENTITY % ISOTECH PUBLIC "ISO 9573-13:1991//ENTITIES General Technical //EN">