JTC1/SC35/WG1 -
Keyboards and Input Interfaces

News 2009-03-24: NP for new ISO 9995-9 on multilingual keyboards with draft
News 2008-10-19: Description of ISO/IEC 9995-3 revision

ISO/IEC   JTC1/SC35/WG1 is the international standardization working group for Keyboards and Input Interfaces.

Approved international standards and other specifications produced include:

• ISO/IEC 9995-1:1994 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 1: General principles governing keyboard layouts
• ISO/IEC 9995-2:2002 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 2: Alphanumeric section
• ISO/IEC 9995-3:2002 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 3: Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section
• ISO/IEC 9995-4:2002 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 4: Numeric section
• ISO/IEC 9995-5:1994 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 5: Editing section
• ISO/IEC 9995-6:1994 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 6: Function section
• ISO/IEC 9995-7:2002 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions
• ISO/IEC 9995-8:1994 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 8: Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad
• ISO/IEC 14775:1997 Information technology -- Input methods to enter characters from the repertoire of ISO/IEC 10646 with a keyboard or other input device
• ISO/IEC 15411:1999 Information technology -- Segmented keyboard layouts
• ISO/IEC TR 15440:2005 Information technology -- Future keyboards and other associated input devices and related entry methods
• ISO/IEC 24757 Information technology -- Keyboard interaction model, machine-readable description and interaction of keyboard keys

Work on projects and their milestones include:

• ISO/IEC 9995-1 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 1: General principles governing keyboard layouts
• ISO/IEC 9995-5 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 5: Editing section
• ISO/IEC 9995-6 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 6: Function section
• ISO/IEC 9995-8 Information technology -- Keyboard layouts for text and office systems -- Part 8: Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad

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