Foreign Language Support
Due to its growing international popularity (several countries, including Australia and the U.K., adopted IGES as their own National Standards for PMI interoperability), support was added to the TEXT (Type 212) entity to support the ISO 8859 (Latin-1) alphabet for European characters.
In the 1990s, IGES added support for the JIS encoding for Kanji (漢字) as double-byte characters (JIS-6226), allowing members of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) to exchange part models with their American and European partners without loss of the Kanji text.
The current version of IGES does not support Unicode 16 or 32 bit character encoding, so Arabic and other scripts (like Thai) cannot be represented.
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