ISO 5218:1977Withdrawn

Information interchange — Representation of human sexes

Échange d'information — Représentation des sexes humains

Abstract / scope

A uniform representation of human sexes for information interchange is defined. Is intended to - reduce time for recording and formatting representation of sexes and transmit them; improve clarity and accuracy of interchange; minimize amoung of human intervention for communicating the representation of sexes; reduce costs. Meets requirements of most applications needing to code human sexes. Provides numeric code independent of language-devired codes.

Life cycle

Replaced by

ISO/IEC WD 5218Deleted (project abandoned)Information interchange — Representation of human sexesInternational Standard · ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32ISO/IEC 5218:2004WithdrawnInformation technology — Codes for the representation of human sexesInternational Standard · Published 8 Jul 2004 · ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32