iso_8859_1

ISO_8859-1(7)              Linux Programmer's Manual             ISO_8859-1(7)



NAME
       iso_8859-1  -  the  ISO 8859-1 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).  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   some east European languages (Latin-10)

   ISO 8859-1 Characters
       The  following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-1, which
       are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.





Linux                             1999-05-31                     ISO_8859-1(7)