Armenian Code Tables

Macintosh Armenian code table (proposed)

Characters in blue are characters which have been identified as being used in Armenian but which do not appear in the ArmSCII tables (see, for instance, Katalog Haykakan SSR tparannerowm gorcacvol taratesakneri (Ereven 1965)). Four of these characters are already in ISO 10646.

ArmSCII 8 (Windows and Unix)

There are a number of questions to be asked about this code table. Since it simply transposes ArmSCII 7 into the right-hand half of the code table, four of the characters in the ASCII half of the code table are duplicated. This may cause problems in one-to-one reversible character set conversion operations. In the Windows environment, most of the positions in columns 8 and 9 can be used for graphic characters. These positions are marked in light grey (unused positions are dark grey). In the standard Latin-1 Windows code table (cp1252), four of the characters also duplicate four of the ArmSCII 7 characters (marked as yellow with a light grey border). I have given the characters as they are in cp1252, having replaced seven of them (used in French and Czech) with characters that might be more useful in an Armenian context (marked as white with a light grey border).

ArmSCII A (DOS)

Resolution of the questions regarding ArmSCII 8 will shed light on what the content of the empty spaces in this code table should be. Are they DOS box-drawing characters? Note that many Armenian punctuation marks are missing from this code table.

ArmSCII 7 (7-bit environments)

It may be very difficult to use this code table in some environments as it contains no numbers. A 7-bit code table with numbers is available for inspection.