ISO-IR-169 is acharacter set developed by the Blissymbolics Communication International Institute (BCI), and registered with theISO-IR registry for use withISO/IEC 2022 by theStandards Council of Canada. It contains 2304 characters for communicating withBlissymbols, including 2267 Blissymbolic dictionary words taken from Wood, Star and Reich's 1991Blissymbol Reference Guide.[1]
Row 1 contains a space, an "error sign", punctuation and ordinal numbers.[1] This is the only row for which Unicode mappings currently exist, as of Unicode 13.0.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
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| 2x | SP | ! | % | ? | . | , | : | |||||||||
| 3x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
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Row 3 contains 19 combining indicator characters for combination with Blissymbolic symbols.[1]
Rows 16 and onward include Blissymbolic dictionary words in alphabetical order by English name. They are annotated with respect to which combining indicators may be applied to the word, and whether certain combinations with indicators are forbidden due to being redundant to another encoded word.[1]
These characters do not exist in Unicode, as of Unicode 13.0.
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| ISO/IEC 8859 |
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| Unicode /ISO/IEC 10646 | |
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