The application supports all extended character sets defined in the DICOM 2002 standard, including single-byte and multi-byte character sets as well as code extension techniques using ISO 2022 escapes.
Support extends to correctly decoding and displaying the correct symbol for all names and strings found in the DICOMDIR, in storage instances from media and received over the network, and in the local database.
No specific support for sorting of strings other than in the default character set is provided in the browsers.
In addition to the default character repertoire, the Defined Terms for Specific Character Set in Table D.6.2-1 are supported:
Table D.6.2-1. Supported Specific Character Set Defined Terms
|
Character Set Description |
Defined Term |
|---|---|
|
Latin alphabet No. 1 |
ISO_IR 100 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 2 |
ISO_IR 101 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 3 |
ISO_IR 109 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 4 |
ISO_IR 110 |
|
Cyrillic |
ISO_IR 144 |
|
Arabic |
ISO_IR 127 |
|
Greek |
ISO_IR 126 |
|
Hebrew |
ISO_IR 138 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 5 |
ISO_IR 148 |
|
Japanese |
ISO_IR 13 |
|
Thai |
ISO_IR 166 |
|
Default repertoire |
ISO 2022 IR 6 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 1 |
ISO 2022 IR 100 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 2 |
ISO 2022 IR 101 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 3 |
ISO 2022 IR 109 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 4 |
ISO 2022 IR 110 |
|
Cyrillic |
ISO 2022 IR 144 |
|
Arabic |
ISO 2022 IR 127 |
|
Greek |
ISO 2022 IR 126 |
|
Hebrew |
ISO 2022 IR 138 |
|
Latin alphabet No. 5 |
ISO 2022 IR 148 |
|
Japanese |
ISO 2022 IR 13 |
|
Thai |
ISO 2022 IR 166 |
|
Japanese |
ISO 2022 IR 87 |
|
Japanese |
ISO 2022 IR 159 |
|
Korean |
ISO 2022 IR 149 |
Whether or not characters are displayed correctly depends on the presence of font support in the underlying operating system. Typically, as described in the Release Notes, it may be necessary for the user to add one of the "all Unicode" fonts to their system configuration in order to correctly display characters that would not typically be used in the default locale.