# Section 2:
References to Standards

The definition of the Sather language and its Required Library rely to some extent on the the standards given in the table below. These standards, so far as possible are international. The issuing body is therefore either the International Standards Organisation (ISO) alone or a joint standard issued by ISO and the International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC). Where this is not the case a separate reference to the standards body concerned is included in the table below. The text of a standard should be consulted for technical detail as needed.

NOTE Reference links provided in the table are to the actual text of the final draft standard where possible (copyright regulations prevent the publication of the actual standard without payment). Otherwise a reference is to some excerpt containing the relevant information pertaining to this specification.

Standards Body | Standard No. | Full Title
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ISO | 639 | Codes for the representation of names of languages
ISO | 639-2 | Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 2: Alpha-3 code
ISO | 3166-1 | Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes
ISO/IEC | 6429 | Control functions for 7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets
ISO/IEC | 8859-1 | 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets : Latin alphabet no. 1
ISO/IEC | 9945-2 | Information Technology - Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) - Part 2: Shell and Utilities [link to (Extended) Regular Expressions]
ISO/IEC | 10646-1:2000 | Information Technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) - Basic Multi-lingual Plane (BMP) NOTE The link is to the (identical) Unicode specification.
ISO/IEC | 13817 | Information Technology - The Vienna Development Method - Specification Language (VDM-SL)
ISO/IEC | 14651 | International String Ordering - Method for comparing Character Strings and Description of the Common Template Tailorable Ordering
ISO/IEC | 14652 | Information Technology - Specifications for Cultural Conventions
ISO/IEC | 14977:1996 | Information Technology - Syntactic Metalanguage - Extended BNF
IEEE | 754 | Binary Floating-point Arithmetic NOTE The link is to tutorial material

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