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 |
West European languages (Latin-1) |
| ISO 8859-2 |
Central and East European languages (Latin-2) |
| ISO 8859-3 |
Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3) |
| ISO 8859-4 |
Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) |
| ISO 8859-5 |
Latin/Cyrillic |
| ISO 8859-6 |
Latin/Arabic |
| ISO 8859-7 |
Latin/Greek |
| ISO 8859-8 |
Latin/Hebrew |
| ISO 8859-9 |
Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) |
| ISO 8859-10 |
Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) |
| ISO 8859-11 |
Latin/Thai |
| ISO 8859-13 |
Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) |
| ISO 8859-14 |
Celtic (Latin-8) |
| ISO 8859-15 |
West European languages (Latin-9) |
| ISO 8859-16 |
Romanian (Latin-10) |
ISO 8859-1 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), which are printable and unlisted in the
ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
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See
groff_char(7) (soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy", paragraph 6.3.3) or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.