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FHIR Value set/code system definition for HL7 v2 table 0211 ( Alternate Character Sets)
<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="v2-0211"/> <meta> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-shareable-definition"/> </meta> <text> <status value="additional"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Alternate Character Sets</p> <table class="grid"> <tr> <td> <b>Code</b> </td> <td> <b>Description</b> </td> <td> <b>Nederlands (Dutch)</b> </td> <td> <b>Comment</b> </td> <td> <b>Version</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/1 <a name="8859.471"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/1 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/1 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/15 <a name="8859.4715"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/15 (Latin-15)</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/15 tekenset (Latin-15)</td> <td/> <td>added v2.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/2 <a name="8859.472"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/2 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/2 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/3 <a name="8859.473"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/3 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/3 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/4 <a name="8859.474"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/4 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/4 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/5 <a name="8859.475"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/5 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/5 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/6 <a name="8859.476"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/6 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/6 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/7 <a name="8859.477"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/7 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/7 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/8 <a name="8859.478"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/8 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/8 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8859/9 <a name="8859.479"> </a> </td> <td>The printable characters from the ISO 8859/9 Character set</td> <td>De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/9 tekenset</td> <td/> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ASCII <a name="ASCII"> </a> </td> <td>The printable 7-bit ASCII character set.</td> <td>De leesbare 7-bit ASCII tekenset.</td> <td>(This is the default if this field is omitted)</td> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>BIG-5 <a name="BIG-5"> </a> </td> <td>Code for Taiwanese Character Set (BIG-5)</td> <td>Code voor Taiwanese tekenset (BIG-5)</td> <td>Does not need an escape sequence.<p>BIG-5 does not need an escape sequence. ASCII is a 7 bit character set, which means that the top bit of the byte is "0". The parser knows that when the top bit of the byte is "0", the character set is ASCII. When it is </td> <td>added v2.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>CNS 11643-1992 <a name="CNS11643-1992"> </a> </td> <td>Code for Taiwanese Character Set (CNS 11643-1992)</td> <td>Code voor Taiwanese tekenset (CNS 11643-1992)</td> <td>Does not need an escape sequence.</td> <td>added v2.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>GB 18030-2000 <a name="GB18030-2000"> </a> </td> <td>Code for Chinese Character Set (GB 18030-2000)</td> <td>Code voor Chinese tekenset (GB 18030-2000)</td> <td>Does not need an escape sequence.</td> <td>added v2.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO IR14 <a name="ISOIR14"> </a> </td> <td>Code for Information Exchange (one byte)(JIS X 0201-1976).</td> <td>Code voor informatieuitwisseling (één byte)(JIS X 0201-1976).</td> <td>Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR14".</td> <td>added v2.3.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO IR159 <a name="ISOIR159"> </a> </td> <td>Code of the supplementary Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0212-1990).</td> <td>Code voor het aanvullende Japanse ideogramschrift voor informatieuitwisseling (JIS X 0212-1990).</td> <td>Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR159".</td> <td>added v2.3.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO IR6 <a name="ISOIR6"> </a> </td> <td>ASCII graphic character set consisting of 94 characters.</td> <td>ASCII ideogramtekenset bestaande uit 94 tekens.</td> <td>http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/006.pdf</td> <td>added v2.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO IR87 <a name="ISOIR87"> </a> </td> <td>Code for the Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0208-1990),</td> <td>Code voor de Japanse ideogramschrift voor informatieuitwisseling (JIS X 0208-1990).</td> <td>Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR87".<p>The JIS X 0208 needs an escape sequence. In Japan, the escape technique is ISO 2022. From basic ASCII, escape sequence "escape" $ B (in HEX, 1B 24 42) lets the parser know that following bytes shoul</td> <td>added v2.3.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>JAS2020 <a name="JAS2020"> </a> </td> <td>A subset of ISO2020 used for most Kanjii transmissions</td> <td>Een subset van ISO 2020 meestal gebruikt voor Kanjii verzendingen</td> <td>deprecated</td> <td>added v2.3, removed after v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>JIS X 0202 <a name="JISX0202"> </a> </td> <td>ISO 2022 with escape sequences for Kanjii</td> <td>ISO 2022 met escape-sequenties voor Kanjii</td> <td>deprecated</td> <td>added v2.3, removed after v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>KS X 1001 <a name="KSX1001"> </a> </td> <td>Code for Korean Character Set (KS X 1001)</td> <td>Code voor Koreaanse tekenset (KS X 1001)</td> <td/> <td>added v2.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>UNICODE <a name="UNICODE"> </a> </td> <td>The world wide character standard from ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993</td> <td>De wereldwijde tekensetstandaard van ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993</td> <td>Deprecated. Retained for backward compatibility only as v 2.5. Replaced by specific Unicode encoding codes.</td> <td>added v2.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>UNICODE UTF-16 <a name="UNICODEUTF-16"> </a> </td> <td>UCS Transformation Format, 16-bit form</td> <td>UCS Transformatieformaat, 16-bits vorm</td> <td>UTF-16 is identical to ISO/IEC 10646 UCS-2. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen.</td> <td>added v2.5, removed after v2.7.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>UNICODE UTF-32 <a name="UNICODEUTF-32"> </a> </td> <td>UCS Transformation Format, 32-bit form</td> <td>UCS Transformatieformaat, 32-bits vorm</td> <td>UTF-32 is defined by Unicode Technical Report #19, and is an officially recognized encoding as of Unicode Version 3.1. UTF-32 is a proper subset of ISO/IEC 10646 UCS-4. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen.</td> <td>added v2.5, removed after v2.7.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>UNICODE UTF-8 <a name="UNICODEUTF-8"> </a> </td> <td>UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form</td> <td>UCS Transformatieformaat, 8-bits vorm</td> <td>UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding, each code value is represented by 1,2 or 3 bytes, depending on the code value. 7 bit ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen. Since UTF-8 re</td> <td>added v2.5</td> </tr> </table> </div> </text> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v2-0211"/> <version value="2.8.2"/> <name value="v2 Alternate Character Sets"/> <status value="active"/> <experimental value="true"/> <publisher value="HL7, Inc"/> <contact> <telecom> <system value="other"/> <value value="http://hl7.org"/> </telecom> </contact> <description value="FHIR Value set/code system definition for HL7 v2 table 0211 ( Alternate Character Sets)"/> <codeSystem> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-oid"> <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.133883.18.116"/> </extension> <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v2/0211"/> <caseSensitive value="false"/> <concept> <code value="8859/1"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/1 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/1 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/15"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/15 (Latin-15)"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/15 tekenset (Latin-15)"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/2"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/2 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/2 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/3"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/3 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/3 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/4"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/4 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/4 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/5"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/5 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/5 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/6"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/6 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/6 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/7"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/7 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/7 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/8"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/8 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/8 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="8859/9"/> <display value="The printable characters from the ISO 8859/9 Character set"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare tekens uit de ISO 8859/9 tekenset"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="(This is the default if this field is omitted)"/> </extension> <code value="ASCII"/> <display value="The printable 7-bit ASCII character set."/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De leesbare 7-bit ASCII tekenset."/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Does not need an escape sequence.<p>BIG-5 does not need an escape sequence. ASCII is a 7 bit character set, which means that the top bit of the byte is "0". The parser knows that when the top bit of the byte is "0", the character set is ASCII. When it is "/> </extension> <code value="BIG-5"/> <display value="Code for Taiwanese Character Set (BIG-5)"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor Taiwanese tekenset (BIG-5)"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Does not need an escape sequence."/> </extension> <code value="CNS 11643-1992"/> <display value="Code for Taiwanese Character Set (CNS 11643-1992)"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor Taiwanese tekenset (CNS 11643-1992)"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Does not need an escape sequence."/> </extension> <code value="GB 18030-2000"/> <display value="Code for Chinese Character Set (GB 18030-2000)"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor Chinese tekenset (GB 18030-2000)"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR14"."/> </extension> <code value="ISO IR14"/> <display value="Code for Information Exchange (one byte)(JIS X 0201-1976)."/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor informatieuitwisseling (één byte)(JIS X 0201-1976)."/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR159"."/> </extension> <code value="ISO IR159"/> <display value="Code of the supplementary Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0212-1990)."/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor het aanvullende Japanse ideogramschrift voor informatieuitwisseling (JIS X 0212-1990)."/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/006.pdf"/> </extension> <code value="ISO IR6"/> <display value="ASCII graphic character set consisting of 94 characters."/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="ASCII ideogramtekenset bestaande uit 94 tekens."/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Note that the code contains a space, i.e., "ISO IR87".<p>The JIS X 0208 needs an escape sequence. In Japan, the escape technique is ISO 2022. From basic ASCII, escape sequence "escape" $ B (in HEX, 1B 24 42) lets the parser know that following bytes shoul"/> </extension> <code value="ISO IR87"/> <display value="Code for the Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0208-1990),"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor de Japanse ideogramschrift voor informatieuitwisseling (JIS X 0208-1990)."/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-deprecated"> <valueBoolean value="true"/> </extension> <code value="JAS2020"/> <display value="A subset of ISO2020 used for most Kanjii transmissions"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Een subset van ISO 2020 meestal gebruikt voor Kanjii verzendingen"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-deprecated"> <valueBoolean value="true"/> </extension> <code value="JIS X 0202"/> <display value="ISO 2022 with escape sequences for Kanjii"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="ISO 2022 met escape-sequenties voor Kanjii"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <code value="KS X 1001"/> <display value="Code for Korean Character Set (KS X 1001)"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="Code voor Koreaanse tekenset (KS X 1001)"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="Deprecated. Retained for backward compatibility only as v 2.5. Replaced by specific Unicode encoding codes."/> </extension> <code value="UNICODE"/> <display value="The world wide character standard from ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="De wereldwijde tekensetstandaard van ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="UTF-16 is identical to ISO/IEC 10646 UCS-2. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen."/> </extension> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-deprecated"> <valueBoolean value="true"/> </extension> <code value="UNICODE UTF-16"/> <display value="UCS Transformation Format, 16-bit form"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="UCS Transformatieformaat, 16-bits vorm"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="UTF-32 is defined by Unicode Technical Report #19, and is an officially recognized encoding as of Unicode Version 3.1. UTF-32 is a proper subset of ISO/IEC 10646 UCS-4. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen."/> </extension> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-deprecated"> <valueBoolean value="true"/> </extension> <code value="UNICODE UTF-32"/> <display value="UCS Transformation Format, 32-bit form"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="UCS Transformatieformaat, 32-bits vorm"/> </designation> </concept> <concept> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-comments"> <valueString value="UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding, each code value is represented by 1,2 or 3 bytes, depending on the code value. 7 bit ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8. Note that the code contains a space before UTF but not before and after the hyphen. Since UTF-8 re"/> </extension> <code value="UNICODE UTF-8"/> <display value="UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form"/> <designation> <language value="nl"/> <value value="UCS Transformatieformaat, 8-bits vorm"/> </designation> </concept> </codeSystem> </ValueSet>
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