Table of Contents

1 Overview
  1.1 Organization
  1.2 Scope
2 References
3 Abbreviations
4 General principles of letter symbol standardization
  4.1 Letter symbols
  4.2 Alphabets and typography
  4.3 Remarks concerning quantity symbols
  4.4 Remarks concerning unit symbols
  4.5 The International System of Units (SI)
  4.6 Usage
5 Unit symbols
6 Unit symbols to be used with limited character sets
  6.1 Limitations arising from the use of ASCII 0000-0127
  6.2 Limitations arising from the use of HTML-coded web
      pages and electronic mail
  6.3 Examples of symbols for limited character sets
  6.4 Limitations arising from importing and exporting
      documents between computer programs
Annex A (normative) Notation for expressing the reference
                    of a level
Annex B (informative) Bibliography

Abstract

Covers letter symbols for units of measurement. It does not include abbreviations for technical terms, nor does it cover symbols for physical quantities.

General Product Information

Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Pages
ISBN
Supersedes	IEEE 260 : 1978