SC22/WG20 N855
Swedish
in Sweden
Administrative information for this specification
Country:
Sweden, Sverige
Two letter code:
SE
Language:
Swedish, svenska
Natural language code:
sv
Character set used for representing cultural data in
this specification:
ISO/IEC 8859-1
Organisation:
ITS, Information Technology
Standardization
Address:
ITS
SE-118 80 STOCKHOLM
Responsible person:
Bo Viklund
Contact person for cultural data:
Monica Ståhl
E-mail of the contact person:
monica.stahl@its.se
Phone number:
+46 8 555 524 90
Fax number:
+46 8 555 524 91
Source:
N.A.
Date of the data provision:
1998-12-22
Version number of the application:
1.0
Clause 1: Alphanumeric deterministic ordering
Ordering of characters:
A-V normal ordering
X-Z normal ordering
Å Ä Ö after Z
Short description of the ordering rules:
W is ordered together with V.
Ü and U with double acute are
ordered together with Y.
Ø, Õ and O with double acute are
ordered together with Ö.
The non-accented letter comes
before its accented forms and variant forms.
Small letters before capital
letters.
Spaces are sorted as a first
letter, before a.
Source
SS 03 81 03 and SS 03 81 04 and
Statskontorets Technical Norm 34:1
Clause 2: Classification of characters
Upper and
lower case.
Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, y, å, ä, ö;
hardvowel: a, o, u, å; softvowel: e, i, y, ä, ö.
Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k,
l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, z.
Clause 3: Numeric formatting
Comma as
decimal separator.
Groups of 3 digits separated by
no-break space.
Clause 4: Monetary formatting
Monetary formatting - name of the currency:
krona (singular), kronor (plural)
International currency code:
SEK
Positive International numeric format:
SEK 125,50
Negative International numeric format:
SEK -125,50
Domestic Currency symbol:
kr or SEK
Positive Domestic numeric format:
125,50 kr or 125:50
Negative Domestic numeric format
-125,50 kr or -125:50
Thousand and decimal separator:
100.125,50 kr or 100 125,50 kr
Clause 5: Date and time conventions
Weekdays:
English name Natural language name Short
Weekday name
Monday måndag
(the first day of the week) må
or mån
Tuesday tisdag ti or tis
Wednesday onsdag on or ons
Thursday torsdag to or tors
Friday fredag fr or fre
Saturday lördag lö or lör
Sunday söndag sö or sön
Note: lower case for first letter in the Swedish names.
Month names:
English name Natural language name Short
Month name
January januari
jan
February februari febr
March mars mars
April april apr
May maj maj
June juni juni
July juli juli
August augusti aug
September september sept
October oktober okt
November november nov
December december dec
Note: lower case for first letter in the Swedish names.
Date in numeric format:
1998-09-07
Time before noon:
10:20 or 10.20
Time after noon:
17:40 or 17.40
Date in non numeric format:
7 september 1998
Time before noon:
"Tjugo över tio" or
"tio och tjugo" (In English twenty past ten)
Time after noon:
Sjutton och fyrtio
Clause 6: Affirmative and negative answers
Affirmative expression
Ja J or j
Negative expression
Nej N or n
Clause 9: Character set considerations
Alphabet:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z Å Ä Ö
Foreign letters or characters that are allowed by the
language orthography:
À, É and Ü. Foreign names may need
any other European letter.
Coded character sets used in the country:
Usually 8859-1 but also CP 1252 (MS
Windows!), CP 10000 (Macintosh), and the older IR 11 (SS 63 61 27 alt 2), CP
437 (MSDOS) and CP 850 (MSDOS).
Characters missing in the code sets:
N.A.
Clause 12: Character properties
N.A.
Clause 13: Use of special characters
For outer
quotes RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (U+201D) or RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE
QUOTATION MARK (U+00BB) is used on both sides (LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE
QUOTATION MARK may also be used on the ending side), and for inner quotes RIGHT
SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+2019).
If these are not available
QUOTATION MARK (U+0022) and APOSTROPHE (U+0027) are used instead.
For multiplication the MIDDLE DOT
is used. For division the SOLITUS is used.
The SECTION SIGN (§) is common in
minutes.
Extra spacing is normally not used
after full stop.
Clause 16: Personal name rules
Children can
get the name of the father or the mother or both. Normally the name of the
father is used.
Children of unmarried couples
normally get the name of the mother.
At marriage the man or woman can
chose the original name of the other.
Normally they chose the name of the
man.
The earlier name can also be kept
as a "mellannamn" without hyphen.
Normally the full first name is
used, written before the family name.
In names with e.g. von, von is
spelled with small letters.
Clause 17: Inflection
Many
inflection forms are used in Swedish, for nouns 8, for adjectives typically 6,
and for verbs often 14.
For nouns and verbs there are a
number of different patterns for forming the inflection forms.
Swedish tends to use compound
words, like "lokalstandardiseringsarbete", where English uses stacked
nouns and adjectives, like "locale standardisation work".
This increases the need for
splitting lines by hyphenation of words, but at the same time makes a simple
approach of using a hyphenation dictionary for the most common words less
effective.
Clause 31: Paper formats
The dominant
paper size is A4. Also A5 is used.
For documents of all sizes a
uniform hole pattern is used, 4 holes with distances 21 mm - 70 mm - 21 mm
vertically, the centre 11 mm from the paper edge, and hole diameter 5mm.