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| − | ISO 8859-1, aka Latin-1, is the most widely used encoding of the [[ISO 8859]] family for English-language text. [[Windows 1252]] encoding includes all the printing characters of ISO 8859-1 and includes additional printing characters by replacing some control characters of the C1 (128-159) range. | + | ISO 8859-1, aka Latin-1, is the most widely used encoding of the [[ISO 8859]] family for English-language text. [[Windows 1252]] encoding includes all the printing characters of ISO 8859-1 and includes additional printing characters by replacing some control characters of the C1 (128-159) range (and often web developers, e-mail software, and other people and programs that generate or transmit text, mistakenly identify Windows-1252-encoded documents as ISO-8859-1 in headers and parameters). |
ISO 8859-1 was updated to [[ISO 8859-15]], called Latin-9, replacing some of the less used characters and adding the Euro (€) sign. However, those who have decided to update from Latin-1 have generally gone straight to Unicode, so Latin-9 has not become a widespread replacement. ISO [[8859-9]] or Latin-5, designed for use with Turkish scripts, also differs from Latin-1 in only a few code points. | ISO 8859-1 was updated to [[ISO 8859-15]], called Latin-9, replacing some of the less used characters and adding the Euro (€) sign. However, those who have decided to update from Latin-1 have generally gone straight to Unicode, so Latin-9 has not become a widespread replacement. ISO [[8859-9]] or Latin-5, designed for use with Turkish scripts, also differs from Latin-1 in only a few code points. | ||
[http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=iso-8859-1.kte Code table] | [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=iso-8859-1.kte Code table] | ||
Revision as of 15:52, 12 November 2012
ISO 8859-1, aka Latin-1, is the most widely used encoding of the ISO 8859 family for English-language text. Windows 1252 encoding includes all the printing characters of ISO 8859-1 and includes additional printing characters by replacing some control characters of the C1 (128-159) range (and often web developers, e-mail software, and other people and programs that generate or transmit text, mistakenly identify Windows-1252-encoded documents as ISO-8859-1 in headers and parameters).
ISO 8859-1 was updated to ISO 8859-15, called Latin-9, replacing some of the less used characters and adding the Euro (€) sign. However, those who have decided to update from Latin-1 have generally gone straight to Unicode, so Latin-9 has not become a widespread replacement. ISO 8859-9 or Latin-5, designed for use with Turkish scripts, also differs from Latin-1 in only a few code points.
