iso-8859-2

ISO_8859-2(7)              Linux Programmer's Manual             ISO_8859-2(7)



NAME
       iso_8859-2  -  the  ISO 8859-2 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).  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,
       Romanian, 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   Some East European languages (Latin-10)

   ISO 8859-2 Characters
       The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-2,  which
       are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.





Linux                             1999-11-13                     ISO_8859-2(7)