HL7 v2.8.2 Vocabulary
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CodeSystem: Alternate Character Sets (2.8.2 - 1.4.0) (Experimental)

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/alternateCharacterSets Version: 1.4.0
Active as of 2026-01-27 Computable Name: AlternateCharacterSets
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.18.116

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HL7-defined code system of concepts used to specify the character set(s) in use. Includes both single-byte and double-byte characters sets, and used in Version 2.x messaging in the MSH segment.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
versionIntroduced versionIntroduced http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/Property#versionIntroduced string version when was this code introduced
versionDeprecated versionDeprecated http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/Property#versionDeprecated string version when was this code deprecated
status status http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status code A code that indicates the status of the concept. Typical values are active, experimental, deprecated, and retired
comment comment http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/Property#comment string A string that provides additional detail pertinent to the use or understanding of the concept
usage usage http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/Property#usage string usage notes for this code
modified modified http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/Property#modified dateTime date of last modification

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/alternateCharacterSets defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinitionversionIntroducedstatuscommentusagemodified
8859/1 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/1 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/1 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/15 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/15 (Latin-15) The printable characters from the ISO 8859/15 (Latin-15) 2.6 2015-07-13
8859/2 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/2 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/2 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/3 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/3 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/3 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/4 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/4 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/4 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/5 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/5 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/5 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/6 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/6 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/6 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/7 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/7 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/7 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/8 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/8 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/8 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
8859/9 The printable characters from the ISO 8859/9 Character set The printable characters from the ISO 8859/9 Character set 2.3 2015-07-13
ASCII The printable 7-bit ASCII character set The printable 7-bit ASCII character set 2.3 2015-07-13
BIG-5 Code for Taiwanese Character Set (BIG-5) Code for Taiwanese Character Set (BIG-5) 2.5 2015-07-13
CNS 11643-1992 Code for Taiwanese Character Set (CNS 11643-1992) Code for Taiwanese Character Set (CNS 11643-1992) 2.5 2015-07-13
GB 18030-2000 Code for Chinese Character Set (GB 18030-2000) Code for Chinese Character Set (GB 18030-2000) 2.5 2015-07-13
ISO IR14 Code for Information Exchange (one byte)(JIS X 0201-1976). Code for Information Exchange (one byte)(JIS X 0201-1976). 2.3.1 2015-07-13
ISO IR159 Code of the supplementary Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0212-1990). Code of the supplementary Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0212-1990). 2.3.1 Note that the code contains a space, i.e. "ISO IR159". 2015-07-13
ISO IR6 ASCII graphic character set consisting of 94 characters. ASCII graphic character set consisting of 94 characters. 2.7 2015-07-13
ISO IR87 Code for the Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0208-1990), Code for the Japanese Graphic Character set for information interchange (JIS X 0208-1990), 2.3.1 2015-07-13
JAS2020 A subset of ISO2020 used for most Kanjii transmissions A subset of ISO2020 used for most Kanjii transmissions 2.3 2025-07-30
JIS X 0202 ISO 2022 with escape sequences for Kanjii ISO 2022 with escape sequences for Kanjii 2.3 2025-07-30
KS X 1001 Code for Korean Character Set (KS X 1001) Code for Korean Character Set (KS X 1001) 2.5 2015-07-13
UNICODE The world wide character standard from ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993 The world wide character standard from ISO/IEC 10646-1-1993 2.3 Available from The Unicode Consortium, P.O. Box 700519, San Jose, CA 95170-0519. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/consort.html 2015-07-13
UNICODE UTF-16 UCS Transformation Format, 16-bit form UCS Transformation Format, 16-bit form 2.5 inactive 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. 2023-08-10
UNICODE UTF-32 UCS Transformation Format, 32-bit form UCS Transformation Format, 32-bit form 2.5 inactive 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. 2023-08-10
UNICODE UTF-8 UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form 2.5 2015-07-13