ITU T.50

ITU T.50

ITU-T recommendation T.50 specifies the International Reference Alphabet (IRA, formerly International Alphabet No. 5, IA5), a character set encoding. ASCII is the U.S. variant of that character set.

The original version from November 1988 corresponds to ISO 646. The current version is from September 1992.

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