What is ISO/IEC 10538 - Control functions for text communication about?
ISO/IEC 10538 defines the control functions, and their coded representations needed, for use in text communication. Section 2 specifies the control functions for text in page-image format, Section 3 specifies the control functions for formatted and formattable text. The control functions, with the exception of two, have been taken from ISO 6429. The definitions of the control functions in ISO/IEC 10538 are, in general, more specific than the corresponding definitions in ISO 6429.
Note 1: The coded representations defined in ISO/IEC 10538 are intended for use when the control functions concerned are embedded in the communicated text, not when they are separated from the text as elements of a communication protocol, for example.
Note 2: ISO/IEC 10538 does not define any control functions required for controlling the process of communication.
Note 3: The specifications in ISO/IEC 10538 apply to the interchange of text in the form of binary-coded representations of graphic characters and control functions. They are not intended for the actual processing of text.
Note 4: Although, in general, the text consists of characters and pictures, ISO/IEC 10538 applies only to text made up of characters.
Who is ISO/IEC 10538 - Control functions for text communication for?
ISO/IEC 10538 on control functions for text communication is useful for:
- IT industries/firms
- IT engineers
- Software engineers
- Manufacturers of text communication devices
Why should you use ISO/IEC 10538 - Control functions for text communication?
Coded-character-data-element (CC-data-element) is an element of interchanged information that is specified to consist of a sequence of coded representations of characters, in accordance with one or more identified standards for coded character sets.
ISO/IEC 10538 specifies the repertoires of control functions for text communication that were first published in Draft International Standard ISO/DIS 6937-3 (for the control functions for page-image format), and in the Draft Proposal for ISO 6937-4 (for the control functions for formatted and formattable text). This will help you to provide supplementary information for the control function PAGE FORMAT SELECTION (PFS). ISO/IEC 10538 provides the communication and interchange of text are formatted and also in reformattable forms and for communication and interchange of text in formatted form only, the pages at the sender’s and the recipients are identical.
Overall, ISO/IEC 10538 assists you with both constant-spacing and variable-spacing graphic symbols, and also where the sender’s and the recipient’s fonts differ and for use with constant-spacing graphic symbols, or where sender and recipient agree to use the same font and size.
