DIN 91379

The DIN standard DIN 91379: "Characters and defined character sequences in Unicode for the electronic processing of names and data exchange in Europe, with CD-ROM"[1] defines a normative subset of Unicode Latin characters, sequences of base characters and diacritic signs, and special characters for use in names of persons, legal entities, products, addresses etc. The standard defines a normative mapping of Latin letters to base letters A-Z as an extension of the recommendations of ICAO.[2]

In the informative part of the standard, a set of extended characters is defined, which includes Greek and Cyrillic letters as well as other special characters for names of legal entities and product names.

  1. ^ "DIN 91379:2022-08: Characters and defined character sequences in Unicode for the electronic processing of names and data exchange in Europe, with CD-ROM" (in German). Beuth Verlag (now DIN Media GmbH). August 2022.
  2. ^ "Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Documents, Part 3 — Specifications Common to all MRTDs" (PDF). ICAO. Retrieved 2022-05-06.