# ISO/IEC 14651:2020 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO/IEC 14651:2020, item title is Information technology — International string ordering and comparison — Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 14651:2025; withdrawn / published date is 2020-12-21, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 14651:2020 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Information technology — International string ordering and comparison — Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO/IEC 14651:2025
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 2020-12-21 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 79392,IS,,ISO/IEC 14651:2020,Information technology — International string ordering and comparison — Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering,Technologies de l'information — Classement international et comparaison de chaînes de caractères — Méthode de comparaison de chaînes de caractères et description du modèle commun et adaptable d'ordre de classement,2020-12-21,6,['35.040.10'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2,9599,[73772],[87359],"['en','fr']",52,"<p>This document defines the following.</p><p>— A reference comparison method. This method is applicable to two character strings to determine their collating order in a sorted list. The method can

## Source

- https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01.
Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).