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.TH ISO_8859-1 7 2012-08-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal
.SH 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.
.P
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.
.P
Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
.TS
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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	Romanian (Latin-10)
.TE
.SS ISO 8859-1 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
which are printable and unlisted in the
.BR ascii (7)
manual page.
The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
.TS
l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description
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