JTC1 - same as Joint Technical Committee 1.

joint technical committee - a joint group of the ISO and IEC. International Standards Organization - same as ISO.

ISO - a worldwide federation of ISO member bodies.

ISO member body - a national standard body which is a member of ISO.

ISO collaborates closely with the IEC on all matters of electrotechnical standardization.

ISO approval of a standard requires 75% approval by the member bodies voting.

IEC - same as International Electrotechnical Commission.

ISO IS9989:1990 - same as ANSI X3.159-1989 adopted by ISO. ISO/IEC documents can be obtained from the ISO Office, 1, rue de Varembe, Case Postale 56, CH-1211, Geneve 20, Switzerland/Suisse.

ISO 646 - 7-bit ASCII with national variants.

ISO 2022 - ESC sequences for switching between various character sets.

ISO 3166 - Codes for the representation of names of countries. These are well known in the Internet as top-level domain names.

ISO 4217 - Codes for the representation of currencies and funds. ISO 4217:1987 - Codes for the representation of currencies and funds.

ISO 6429 - ASCII Control Codes, also known as VT100/VT320/ANSI escape sequences.

ISO 8601 - Representation of Dates and Times

ISO 8859 - Several 8-bit ASCII extensions. Especially ISO 8859-1, the Latin alphabet No. 1 has become widely implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII replacement.

ISO 9541 - Font and Character Information Interchange.

ISO 9899 - The C programming language.

ISO/IEC 9899:1990 - same as ANSI C.

ISO 9945 - UNIX style system calls and shell commands (POSIX). ISO 10646- A 32-bit character set called UCS containing (nearly) all characters used on this planet that will hopefully solve most of the character set troubles with computers one day. Today only the 16-bit subset UCS-2 has been defined, also known as 'Unicode' that is expected to become pretty popular soon and will be supported by Windows NT, Plan 9 and other new operating systems.

ISO 9 - Transliteration of Slavic Cyrillic characters into Latin characters.

ISO 233 - Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters.

ISO 259 - Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters.

ISO 639 - Code for the representation of names of languages (e.g., en=English, de=German, ... a few 100 others).

ISO 3602 - Romanization of Japanese (kana script).

ISO 7098 - Romanization of Chinese.