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bf42aad4 26.TH ISO_8859-1 7 2012-08-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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27.nh
28.SH NAME
84092221 29iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
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30and hexadecimal
31.SH DESCRIPTION
32The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
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33character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
34Especially important is
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35ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
36implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
37replacement.
38.P
39ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
40Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
41German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
42Spanish, and Swedish.
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44Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
45of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
73d8cece 46.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
fea681da 47The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
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50ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
51ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
52ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
53ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
54ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
55ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
56ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
57ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
58ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
59ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
60ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
61ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
62ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
63ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
64ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
65.TE
73d8cece 66.SS ISO 8859-1 characters
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67The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
68which are printable and unlisted in the
69.BR ascii (7)
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70manual page.
71The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
fea681da 72in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
fea681da 73.TS
383d58e9 74l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
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75Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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