Editing IGES (section)

==Foreign-language support==
[[File:fc2001x.gif|thumb|right|200px|fc2001x.igs is an example IGES file that demonstrates Font Code 2001 ('''[[Kanji#History|Kanji]]''')]]
Due to its growing international popularity (several countries, including Australia and the UK, adopted IGES as their own National Standards for PMI interoperability), support was added to the TEXT (Type 212) entity to support the [[ISO/IEC 8859-1|ISO 8859 (Latin-1)]] alphabet for European characters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wiz-worx.com/iges5x/misc/font3001.shtml |title=MISC - IGES Example File font3001}}</ref>

In the 1990s, IGES added support for the [[JIS encoding]] for [[Kanji]] ([[wikt:漢字|漢字]]) as double-byte characters ([[JIS X 0208|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.<ref>But see IGES RFC 603, {{cite web |title=MSID Standards Activities |url=http://ts.nist.gov/Standards/IGES/rfc603.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719004148/http://ts.nist.gov/Standards/IGES/rfc603.cfm |archive-date=2012-07-19 |access-date=2011-10-01}} that proposes flagged UTF-8.</ref>