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20、rmission of the publisher. Canadian Keyboard Standard for the English and French Languages Contents Technical Committee on Text and Office Systems 4 Preface 6 7 1- scope 2 Definitions 8 3. Reference Publications 8 4. Conformance 70 4.1 General 70 4.2 Conformance Level A 70 4.3 Conformance Level B 10
21、 4.4 Conformance Level C 70 4.5 Defautt Conformance Level 70 5. General and physical Requirements 70 5.1 Primary Keyboard Layout 70 5.2 Secondary Keyboard Layout I I 5.3 Alphanumeric and Shift Keys 71 5.4 Keyboard Layouts 71 5.5 Groupshift 72 5.6 Operation of Keys with Diacritical Marks 5.7 Key Labe
22、lling 12 5.7.1 Mandatory Labels 72 5.7.2 Non-mandatory Labels 12 72 Tables 18 Appendices A-GrapShift 32 8 - Valid Combinations of Diacritical Marks and Letters Used in the French Language 33 c - Valid Combinations of Diacritical Marks and Letters Used in this Standard 34 3 CANCSA -Z43.2OO-92 Technic
23、al Committee on Text and Office Systems B. Ho* D.A. MacKinnon E.M. Wade D. Barnard P.G. Bowie E. Buchinslri M. Cattier B.L. Catley J. Costa P. Desjardins G.K. Holman* A. James A. LaBonte J. LebensoW N. Levette Department of Communications, Ottawa, Ontario Software Kinetics Ltd., Stittsville, Ontario
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27、d for the English and French Languages CA N/CSA-Z243.200-92 Canadian Keyboard Standard for the English and French Languages 1 .I This Standard specifies requirements for keyboards to be used throughout Canada for word, information, and data- p rocessi ng applications . 12 This Standard defines the n
28、ational keyboard layout (the primary keyboard layoup) providing access to characters most commonly used in Canada (group I chamctes) and a secondary keyboard layout which, when combined with the group 7 characters, supports the Latin alphabet No. 1 Graphic Set as defined in CSA Standard CANCSA-2243.
29、4 and IS0 Standard 8859-1 (group 2a characters) or the Latin alphabet as defined in IS0 Standard 6937 (group 2 (b) technological or operational aspects of any particular implementation; (c) fonts; (d) placement of representation of a graphic symbol on any given keytop or keyface; Januruy 7992 7 (e)
30、shape, size, or colour of the keys; and (f) mechanism to enter the control characters. 19 The placement and function of the shift keys shall be in accordance with IS0 Standard 9995-2. 2. Definitions 2.1 The following definitions apply in this Standard: Group - a logical state of a keyboard providing
31、 access to a collection of characters. A group usually contains a set of characters whEh logically belong together and which may be arranged on several shift levels within that group. Group f characters - a set of 127 graphic characters commonly used in Canada (see Table 1). Gmup 2a characters - a s
32、et of 64 graphic characters (see Table 2) which when combined with group I characters provide access to the Latin alphabet No. 1 Graphic Set defined in CAN/CSA-Z243.4. Group 2b characters - a set of 143 graphic characters (see Table 3) which when combined with gmup 7 characters and group 2a characte
33、rs provide access to the Latin alphabet defined in IS0 Standard 6937. Group shift - a function which, if activated, shall change the keyboard state to produce characters from a different g roup. Level - one of several states (normally 2 or 3) governing which graphic character is produced when a grap
34、hic key is actuated. In certain cases the level may also affect function keys. Level I characters - those graphic characters of a group which can be generated from the keyboard when level 1 is in effect (eg, small letters). Level 2 characters - those graphic characters of a group which can be genera
35、ted from the keyboard when level 2 is in effect (eg, capital letters). Level 3 characters - those graphic characters of a group which can be generated from the keyboard when level 3 is in effect. Primary keyboard layout - the allocation of the graphic charaders of the group 7 characters to the set o
36、f 3 levels as shown in Figure 3. Secondary keyboard layout - the allocation of the graphic characters of the group 2 chamcters as shown in Fgures 4 and 5. Figure 4 shows the atlocation of the group 2a characters. Figure 5 shows the allocation of gmup 2a and26 characters. These layouts conform to IS0
37、 Standard 9995-3. 3. Reference Publications 3.1 This Standard refers to the following publications and where such reference is made it shall be to the edition listed below, including all revisions published thereto: 8 Januar). 1992 Canadian Keyboard Standard for the English and French languages CSA
38、Standards m1983, Videoteflelefext Presentation L eve1 Protocol Syntax (North American PL PS); Supplement No. 1-199 1 to CSA Standard T5UU- 1983; CAWCSA-2243.4-87, 7-bit and 8-b# Coded Character Sefs for information Processing and interchange; CAN3-Z243.19-85, Correspondence Type writer Keyboard Layo
39、ut for the English and French Languages. SO* Standards 6937:1991,t Infomation technology - Coded graphic character sets for text communication - Latin alphabet; 8859-1 : 1987, Information Processing - 9995-1 :1991,t lnformatiun processing - Text and office systems - Keyboard layouts for text and off
40、ice systems - Part I: General principles governing keyboard layouts; 9995*2:1991,t Information processing - Text and office systems - Keyboard layouts fur fext and office systems - Part 2: Alphanumeric secthn; 9995-3 : 1991, t lnformation processing - Text and office systems - Keyboard layouts for t
41、ext and office systems - Part 3: Common secondary layout for the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section; 9995-4:1991,* Information Processing - Text and office systems - Keyboard Iayouts for text and office systems - Part 4: Numeric section; 9995-5 : 1991, t information processing - Text and
42、office systems - Keyboard layouts for text and office systems - Part 5: Ed#ing section; 9995-6:1991,t lnformation processing - Text and office systems - Keyboard layouts fur text and office systems - Part 6: Function section; 9995-7 : 1991, t Information processing - Text and office systems - Keybua
43、rd layouts fur text and office systems - Part 7: Symbols used on keyboards to represen? functions; 10367: 1990, t Information processing - Repertuire of standardized coded graphic character sets for use in 8-bit codes. International Organization for Standardization- t Draft International Standard (D
44、IS). 1992 9 4. Conformance 4.1 General This Standard specifies three conformance levels in order to allow for more precise statements in claiming confomnce. Conformance Level A is the minimum conformance level. 4.2 Conformance Level A The keyboard meets Conformance Level A when it supports the group
45、 7 characters (Table 1) and the placement of the charaders as indicated in Fgure 3 and Table 4. Implementation shall be in a single group known as group 1. 4.3 Conformance Level B The keyboard meets Conformance Level B when it conforms to Level A and also supports the group 2a characten as defined i
46、n Table 2 and the placement of ?he characlers as indicated in figures 3 and 4 and Tables 4 and 5. Implementation shall be in two groups known as group 7 plus gmup 2a. 4.4 Conformance Level C The keyboard meets Conformance level C when it conforms to Level A and Level B and also supports the group 26
47、 characters as defined in Table 5 and the placement of the characters as indicated in Fgures 3 and 5 and Tables 4 and 5. Implementation shall be in two groups known as group 7 plus group 2d2h 45 Default Conformance Level Any statement of conformance to this Standard without specifying a conformance
48、level shall be interpreted as Conformance Level A. 5. General and Physical Requirements 5.1 Primary Keyboard layout (see Fgure 3) The primw keyboard layout consists of three levels. Fgure 3 shows, for each level of each key, the positions of the characters required to enter the group 1 characters. I
49、n gmup 7, the following characters are non-spacing characters: IS0 6937 Graphic ID symbol Name Position GRAVE ACCENT D11 CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT D11 DIAERESIS D11 SD13 SD15 SD17 “ To enter accented letters with the grave accent, the circumflex accent or the diaeresis, enter the accent followed by the letter (see Clause 5.6). In group 7, character - (TILDE) in position D12 is a spacing character. In group I, character “ NBSP “ (nu break space) is shown using its symbol notation ( v ) to conform to IS0 Standard 9995-7. Unassigned positions are reserved for future use. 10 January 1992
