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bf42aad4 25.TH ISO_8859-1 7 2012-08-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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27.SH NAME
84092221 28iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
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29and hexadecimal
30.SH DESCRIPTION
31The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
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32character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
33Especially important is
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34ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
35implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
36replacement.
37.P
38ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
39Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
40German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
41Spanish, and Swedish.
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43Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
44of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
73d8cece 45.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
fea681da 46The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
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47.TS
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49ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
50ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
51ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
52ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
53ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
54ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
55ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
56ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
57ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
58ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
59ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
60ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
61ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
62ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
63ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
64.TE
73d8cece 65.SS ISO 8859-1 characters
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66The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
67which are printable and unlisted in the
68.BR ascii (7)
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69manual page.
70The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
fea681da 71in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
fea681da 72.TS
383d58e9 73l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
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74Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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