ISO 8859

ISO/IEC 8859 is a family of 8-bit character encodings that are extensions of ASCII. All of them reserve code values 80 through 9F (128 through 159 decimal) for control characters. The ISO 8859 encodings are the following:

• ISO 8859-1: Latin-1, used for western European languages including English
• ISO 8859-2: Latin-2, used for central and eastern European languages
• ISO 8859-3: Latin-3, for Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, and Turkish
• ISO 8859-4: Latin-4, for Scandinavian and Baltic languages
• ISO 8859-5: Cyrillic characters
• ISO 8859-6: Arabic characters
• ISO 8859-7: Modern Greek
• ISO 8859-8: Hebrew
• ISO 8859-9: Latin-5, Turkish variant of Latin-1
• ISO 8859-10: Latin-6, for Lappish, Nordic, and Inuit languages
• ISO 8859-11: Thai
• (ISO 8859-12 was abandoned)
• ISO 8859-13: Latin-7, Baltic Rim languages
• ISO 8859-14: Latin-8, Celtic
• ISO 8859-15: Latin-9, Revision of Latin-1, includes Euro sign
• ISO 8859-16: Latin-10, Romanian

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