ISO 5218:1977
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ISO 5218:1977
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Abstract

A uniform representation of human sexes for information interchange is defined. Is intended to - reduce time for recording and formatting representation of sexes and transmit them; improve clarity and accuracy of interchange; minimize amoung of human intervention for communicating the representation of sexes; reduce costs. Meets requirements of most applications needing to code human sexes. Provides numeric code independent of language-devired codes.


General information 

  •  :  Withdrawn
     : 1977-09
  •  : 1
     : 1
  •  : ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange
  •  :
    35.040.50 Automatic identification and data capture techniques

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