ISO/IEC 9995

ISO/IEC 9995 Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems is an ISO standard series defining layout principles for computer keyboards. It does not define specific layouts but provides the base for national and industry standards which define such layouts.

The ISO/IEC 9995 standard dates to 1994 and has undergone several updates over the years. It currently consists of the following parts:

• ISO/IEC 9995-1:2009 General principles governing keyboard layouts
• ISO/IEC 9995-2:2009 Alphanumeric section
• ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010 Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section
• ISO/IEC 9995-4:2009 Numeric section
• ISO/IEC 9995-5:2009 Editing and function section
• ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 Symbols used to represent functions
• ISO/IEC 9995-8:2009 Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad

(ISO 9995-6:2006 Function section was withdrawn 2009-10-08.)