DESCRIPTION
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-2, the "Latin Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin characters and is implemented by several program vendors.
ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian.
Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.
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 8859-2 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), 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 8859-2.