ISO/IEC 15897 explained

ISO/IEC 15897 (Procedures for the registration of cultural elements) is an ISO/IEC standard for the registration of new POSIX locales and POSIX charmaps. This standard is the result of a "fast-track" adoption of CEN ENV 12005, a European prestandard published by CEN. It was originally published in 1999, and a second edition was published in 2011.

The standard was produced by Working Group 20 (WG20) of the JTC 1/SC 22 committee, but in 2006 the standard was transferred to the JTC 1/SC 35 committee. The registry is maintained by Danish UNIX-systems User Group (DKUUG),^[1] although it has not been updated since December 2001.^[2] The standard was confirmed in 2017, following a five-yearly systematic review.^[1]

Items registered in the registry are:

• Narrative Cultural Specifications
• POSIX Locales
• POSIX Charmaps
• Repertoiremaps

It overlaps somewhat with the CLDR project hosted at the Unicode Consortium.

External links

• Draft of the standard (free)
• ISO/IEC 15897 in ISO's Online Browsing Platform
• ISO/IEC 15897 and CEN ENV 12005 Cultural registry DKUUG STD

Notes and References

1. Web site: ISO/IEC 15897:2011 . International Organization for Standardization . 7 June 2018 .
2. Web site: Cultural Registry entries. DKUUG STD. 2017-10-18.