The International Organization for Standardization is a union of national standardization organizations out of more than 150 countries elaborating standards in nearly all sectors excepted electrics and telecommunications.
Questions tagged [iso]
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Are there any plans for a future C standard after C11?
I searched on the open standards website, particularly the C working group homepage but only found information about C11.
They seem to have regular meetings and discuss different features and extensions, but they never actually mention a future C…

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ISO to datetime object: 'z' is a bad directive
I am trying to convert ISO to datetime using the code below:
dt = datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-07-23T15:10:59.342107+01:00",
"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z")
and I'm getting the error below:
'z' is a bad directive in…

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Converting an ISO 8601 timestamp into an NSDate: How does one deal with the UTC time offset?
I'm having trouble converting an ISO 8601 timestamp into an NSDate. I tried to use NSDateFormatter, but I can't get it to work with the UTC time offset that appears on the end of the timestamps. To explain, I would like to convert a timestamp such…

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What standard do language codes of the form "zh-Hans" belong to?
Through the REST API of an application, I receive language codes of the following form: ll-Xxxx.
two lowercase letters languages (looks like ISO 639-1),
a dash,
a code going up to four letters, starting with an uppercase letter (looks like an…

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What is the __STDC_VERSION__ value for C11?
I know that compilers use __STDC__ to indicate that a compiler is standard C and, from, there, you can use __STDC_VERSION__ to figure out which level of the standard you're using.
I also know that C90 had no value, C90 amendment 1 had 199401L and…

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How to build a CD ISO image file from the windows command line?
In an effort to satisfy "The Joel Test" question #2 "Can you make a build in one step?", I'm trying to complete a release candidate build script with the creation of a CD iso from the collection of files gathered and generated by the installer…

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Normalizing Human Skin Colors for User Interaction
A while ago I came across this answer that introduced me to the obscure (at least for me) ISO 5218: a standard for representing human sexes (or is it genders? - thanks @Paul).
For a pet project I'm working on I need my database schema to store the…

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Convert ISO 8601 to NSDate
I have a timestamp coming from server that looks like this:
2013-04-18T08:49:58.157+0000
I've tried removing the colons, I've tried all of these:
Converting an ISO 8601 timestamp into an NSDate: How does one deal with the UTC time offset?
Why…

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GCC options for strictest C code?
What GCC options should be set to have GCC as strict as possible? (and I do mean as strict as possible) I'm writing in C89 and want my code to be ANSI/ISO compliant.
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Why iconv cannot convert from utf-8 to iso-8859-1
My system is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
I'm trying to convert a data from utf-8 format to iso useing "iconv"
$>file test.utf8
test.utf8: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines
$>
$>file -i test.utf8
test.utf8: text/plain…

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Is C++03 a new version of the C++ Standard or just a Technical Corrigendum (TC) of C++98?
I'm pretty sure I read on an authoritative source somewhere (I believe it was on the WG21 pages) that C++03 was not a technical corrigendum of C++98 but that it was a new release of the C++ Standard.
But nontheless I see only -std=c++98 switch in…

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ISO Standard Street Addresses?
Is there an ISO standard address format? I can't seem to find one, and I'd like to know for object- and database-design purposes.
(One interesting document that shows a bunch of formats is this:…

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Are notes and examples in the core language specification of the C++ Standard non-normative?
Often on SO (and elsewhere) I have seen the claim that notes and examples in the C++ Standard are not normative - I have probably made this claim myself a few times.
However, I could not find evidence of this fact in the core language specification…

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Do minor currency units have a ISO standard?
ISO 4217 defines 3-letter currency symbols:
EUR
USD
LKR
GBP
Do currencies' minor units (cent, pence) have a ISO or similar standard, too, that defines codes for those sub-units like
ct
p
?

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Which ISO format should I use to store a user's language code?
Should I use ISO 639-1 (2-letter abbreviation) or ISO 639-2 (3 letter abbrv) to store a user's language code? Both are official standards, but which is the de facto standard in the development community? I think ISO 639-1 would be easier to…

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