ISO/IEC 15897

{{Short description|ISO standard for locale in computing}}

ISO/IEC 15897 (Procedures for the registration of cultural elements) is an ISO/IEC standard for the registration of new POSIX locales and POSIX charmaps. This standard is the result of a "fast-track" adoption of CEN ENV 12005, a European prestandard published by CEN. It was originally published in 1999, and a second edition was published in 2011.

The standard was produced by Working Group 20 (WG20) of the JTC 1/SC 22 committee, but in 2006 the standard was transferred to the JTC 1/SC 35 committee. The registry is maintained by Danish UNIX-systems User Group (DKUUG),{{Cite web | title=ISO/IEC 15897:2011 | url=https://www.iso.org/standard/50707.html | publisher=International Organization for Standardization | access-date=7 June 2018 }} although it has not been updated since December 2001.{{cite web|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/cultreg/registrations/chreg.htm|title=Cultural Registry entries|publisher=DKUUG STD|access-date=2017-10-18}} The standard was confirmed in 2017, following a five-yearly systematic review.

Items registered in the registry are:

• Narrative Cultural Specifications
• POSIX Locales
• POSIX Charmaps
• Repertoiremaps

It overlaps somewhat with the CLDR project hosted at the Unicode Consortium.