AS/NZS 4395.

2:1996
ISO/IEC 9995-2:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology— Keyboard

layouts for text and office systems

Part 2: Alphanumeric section

 AS/NZS 4395.2:1996

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 20 December 1995 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 3 May 1996. It was published on 5 May 1996.
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The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Bankers’ Association

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Science and Technology, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Telstra, Australia
Telecom, New Zealand

Review of Standards. To keep abreast of progress in industry, Joint Australian/

New Zealand Standards are subject to periodic review and are kept up to date by the
issue of amendments or new editions as necessary. It is important therefore that
Standards users ensure that they are in possession of the latest edition, and any
amendments thereto.
Full details of all Joint Standards and related publications will be found in the
Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand Catalogue of Publications; this
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taken.
 AS/NZS 4395.2:1996

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology— Keyboard

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Part 2: Alphanumeric section

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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ISBN 0 7337 0330 5
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee IT/1 on
Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from
ISO/IEC 9995-2:1994, Information technology—Keyboard layouts for text and office systems, Part 2:
Alphanumeric section.

The objective of this Standard is to provide designers of keyboards used in the IT environment with
various characteristics. This part specifies the alphanumeric section of a keyboard, the arrangement, the
location and the number of the keys in the alphanumeric zone.

This Standard is Part 2 of AS/NZS 4395 Information technology—Keyboard layouts for text and office
systems, which is published in Parts as follows:

Part 1: General principles governing keyboard layouts

Part 2: Alphanumeric section (this Standard)
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Part 3: Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section

Part 4: Numeric section
Part 5: Editing section
Part 6: Function section
Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions
Part 8: Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad.

This Standard supersedes (in part) Australian Standard AS 2298—1979.

The term ‘informative’, has been used in the Standard to define the application of the annex to which it
applies. An ‘informative’ annex is only for information and guidance.

Users of this Standard are advised by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand, under arrangements
made with ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, that the number of this Standard
is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the cover and title pages.

For the purpose of this Standard, the source text should be modified as follows:

(a) Terminology The words ‘this Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘this
International Standard’ wherever they appear.

(b) Decimal marker Substitute a full point for a comma where it appears as a decimal marker.

(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where
appropriate, to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint

or other publication Australian/New Zealand Standard

ISO/IEC AS
646 Information technology—ISO 7-bit coded 1776 Information processing—7-bit coded
character set for information interchange character set for information interchange

6937 Information technology—Coded graphic —

character set for text communication—
Latin alphabet
9995 Information technology— Keyboard
layouts for text and office systems
9995-1 Part 1: General principles governing
keyboard layouts
AS/NZS
4395 Informat ion t echnol ogy— Keyboard
layouts for text and office systems
4395.1 Part 1: General principles governing
keyboard layouts
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CONTENTS
Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

4 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

5 Arrangement and Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

6 Division into zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

7 Arrangement and location of keys in the alphanumeric zone of the . .

alphanumeric section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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8 Functions of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section . . . 4

Annex

A Allocation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

(PAGE iv IN THE HARD COPY IS BLANK.)

Originated in Australi a as part of AS 2298—1979.

Jointl y revised and redesignated in part as AS/NZS 4395.2:1996.

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AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND STANDARD

Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and

office systems —

Part 2:
Alphanumeric section
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1 Scope ISO/IEC 9995-1:1994, Information technology —

Within the general scope described in part 1 of
ISO/IEC 9995, this part of ISO/IEC 9995 specifies
the alphanumeric section of a keyboard and the
division of that section into zones, the
arrangement, the number, and the location of the
keys in the alphanumeric zone ZA0 of the
alphanumeric section as well as the layout and
allocation of several control functions to the keys
in the function zones of the alphanumericsection.
Keyboard layouts for text and office systems—
Part 1: General principles governing keyboard
layouts.
ISO/IEC 646:1991, Informationtechnology— ISO
7-bit coded character set for information
interchange.
ISO/IEC 6937:1994, Information technology —
Coded g raphic ch aracter set for t ext
communication—Latin alphabet.

2 Conformance
Equipment is in conformance with this part of
ISO/IEC 9995 if it meets the requirements of 8.3
and either 7.1 or 7.2.
4 Definitions
For the purposes of this part of ISO/IEC 9995,
the definitions given in ISO/IEC 9995-1 apply.

3 Normative references 5 Arrangement and Location

The alphanumeric section is located to the right

The followingstandards contain provisionswhich,
through reference in this text, constitute
provisions of this part of ISO/IEC 9995. At the
time of publication, the editions indicated were
valid. All standards are subject to revision, and
parties to agreements based on this part of
ISO/IEC 9995 are encouraged to investigate the
possibility of applying the most recent editions of
the standards indicated below. Members of IEC
and ISO maintain registers of currently valid
International Standards.
of and below a part of the function section and to
the left of the editing and the numeric sections,
see ISO/IEC 9995-1; its extent is from column 99
to column 15.
6 Division into zones
The alphanumeric section is divided into zones
as illustrated in figure 1.

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