iso_8859_15

ISO_8859-15(7)             Linux Programmer's Manual            ISO_8859-15(7)



NAME
       iso_8859-15  - the ISO 8859-15 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.
       However, it lacks the EURO symbol and does not fully cover Finnish  and
       French.   ISO 8859-15 is a modification of ISO 8859-1 that covers these
       needs.

       ISO 8859-15 supports the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton,
       Catalan,  Danish,  Dutch,  English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French,
       Frisian,  Galician,  German,  Greenlandic,  Icelandic,  Irish   Gaelic,
       Italian,  Latin,  Luxemburgish,  Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic,
       Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish.

   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 8859-15 Characters
       The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-9,  which
       are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.





Linux                             1999-05-31                    ISO_8859-15(7)