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ISO_8859-1

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NAME

iso_8859-1 ? the ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). Especially important is ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII replacement.

ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish, Spanish, and Swedish.

Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters of ISO 10646 (Unicode).

ISO 8859 Alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO 8859-1 Characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-1, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

SEE ALSO

ascii(7), iso_8859_15(7)


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