Basic Character Set 2.1. Naming The Armenian character set presented below follows the standard AST 34.001. The first column contains full naming of the characters, and the second column provides abbreviations thereof that can be used in the systems confined to the Latin character set. The detailed classification of the characters follows in the points below. In spite of the fact that the space, numbers and Latin script are also part of the Armenian character set, these were not included in the AST 34.001 standard since these are present in all systems.
Capitalization applies to letter characters only.
The shift from upper case to lower case replaces the capital-letter character with the following character as per Table 1 . Accordingly, the shift from lower case to upper case replaces the small-letter character with the preceding character as per the Table 1 . In such cases, some characters of the Armenian character set may be mapped into already existing codified characters. The details of unification of Armenian punctuation marks are reviewed below. The Armenian character set should be mapped into a continual sequence of codes in the order these are presented in the Table 1 .