Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO

VI-12 Machine Readable Travel Documents
Check digit
Character positions (lower MRZ line)
used to calculate check digit
Check digit position
(lower MRZ line)
Document number check digit 1 � 9 10
Date of birth check digit 14 � 19 20
Date of expiry check digit 22 � 27 28
Composite check digit 1 � 10, 14 � 20, 22 � 35 (lower line)
Note.— Positions 11 � 13 and position 21
(lower line) are excluded in calculating the
composite check digit.
Character sets and fonts
9. The character sets and fonts to be used in the td2 shall be as indicated hereunder.
9.1 Captions
9.1.1 Captions shall be printed in a clear, linear type font in a size of 1.0 mm to 1.8 mm (0.04 in to 0.07 in).
9.1.2 Captions shall be in the language of the issuing State or organization. When such language uses
the Latin alphabet, straight font style should be used to print the captions.
9.1.3 Where the language of the issuing State or organization is not English, French or Spanish, the
printed caption as defined in 9.1.2 shall be followed by an oblique character (/) and the equivalent of the caption
in English, French or Spanish. An italic font style should be used for the second language.
Note.— Where the language of the issuing State or organization is English, French or Spanish, the
issuing State or organization should use one of the other two languages to print the caption following the
oblique (/) character.
9.2 Entered data in the VIZ. See Section IV, 8.2
9.3 Entered data in the MRZ. See Section IV, 9.4.
Portrait
10. Portrait. A portrait, representing only the holder of the td2, shall occupy the rectangular area defined
as Zone V as specified in the data element directory in 5.1 of this section and in Section IV, 6.
10.1 The portrait may have irregular edges. When a digitally printed reproduction is used, the
background of the portrait may be dropped out in order to provide protection against forgery or substitution.
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