ANSEL

ANSEL, American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use, is a character set used in text encodings like MARC-8. ANSEL is also known as ANSI/NISO Z39.47 or American Library Association character set (as used in library systems including the MARC format).

Rather than having precomposed characters like ISO-8859-1 it codes basic characters and a large number of combining diacritic marks, making it capable of expressing a large range of characters.

Use

ANSEL is one of the accepted character sets of the GEDCOM file format specification which is used for storing as well as exchanging genealogical data.

ANSEL is one of the character sets used in MARC 21 records of bibliographic data. It is frequently used for exchange of bibliographic records via the Z39.50 protocol.

See also

• ISO/IEC 6937

References

• ANSI/NISO Z39.47

External links

• National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• ANSEL to Unicode Conversion Table
• ANSEL Code Table
• MARC/ANSEL to Unicode mappings