Definition
S-52 specifies the colours, symbols, line styles, text placement and display priorities used by every type-approved ECDIS, together with the day, dusk and night colour tables. It is why the same ENC looks essentially identical on different manufacturers' equipment, and why a navigator trained on one system can read another. It also defines the simplified and traditional paper-chart symbol sets that the user may select.
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