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26 .TH ISO_8859-1 7 2012-04-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
27 .nh
28 .SH NAME
29 iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
30 and hexadecimal
31 .SH DESCRIPTION
32 The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
33 character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
34 Especially important is
35 ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
36 implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
37 replacement.
38 .P
39 ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
40 Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
41 German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
42 Spanish, and Swedish.
43 .P
44 Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
45 of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
46 .SS "ISO 8859 Alphabets"
47 The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
48 .TS
49 l l.
50 ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
51 ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
52 ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
53 ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
54 ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
55 ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
56 ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
57 ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
58 ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
59 ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
60 ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
61 ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
62 ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
63 ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
64 ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
65 .TE
66 .SS "ISO 8859-1 Characters"
67 The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
68 which are printable and unlisted in the
69 .BR ascii (7)
70 manual page.
71 The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
72 in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
73 .TS
74 l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
75 Oct Dec Hex Char Description
76 _
77 240 160 A0   NO-BREAK SPACE
78 241 161 A1 ¡ INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
79 242 162 A2 ¢ CENT SIGN
80 243 163 A3 £ POUND SIGN
81 244 164 A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN
82 245 165 A5 ¥ YEN SIGN
83 246 166 A6 ¦ BROKEN BAR
84 247 167 A7 § SECTION SIGN
85 250 168 A8 ¨ DIAERESIS
86 251 169 A9 © COPYRIGHT SIGN
87 252 170 AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
88 253 171 AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
89 254 172 AC ¬ NOT SIGN
90 255 173 AD ­ SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line breaks) [1]
91 256 174 AE ® REGISTERED SIGN
92 257 175 AF ¯ MACRON
93 260 176 B0 ° DEGREE SIGN
94 261 177 B1 ± PLUS-MINUS SIGN
95 262 178 B2 ² SUPERSCRIPT TWO
96 263 179 B3 ³ SUPERSCRIPT THREE
97 264 180 B4 ´ ACUTE ACCENT
98 265 181 B5 µ MICRO SIGN
99 266 182 B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN
100 267 183 B7 · MIDDLE DOT
101 270 184 B8 ¸ CEDILLA
102 271 185 B9 ¹ SUPERSCRIPT ONE
103 272 186 BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
104 273 187 BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
105 274 188 BC ¼ VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
106 275 189 BD ½ VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
107 276 190 BE ¾ VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
108 277 191 BF ¿ INVERTED QUESTION MARK
109 300 192 C0 À LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
110 301 193 C1 Á LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
111 302 194 C2 Â LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
112 303 195 C3 Ã LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
113 304 196 C4 Ä LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
114 305 197 C5 Å LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
115 306 198 C6 Æ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
116 307 199 C7 Ç LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
117 310 200 C8 È LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
118 311 201 C9 É LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
119 312 202 CA Ê LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
120 313 203 CB Ë LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
121 314 204 CC Ì LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
122 315 205 CD Í LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
123 316 206 CE Î LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
124 317 207 CF Ï LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
125 320 208 D0 Ð LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH
126 321 209 D1 Ñ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
127 322 210 D2 Ò LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
128 323 211 D3 Ó LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
129 324 212 D4 Ô LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
130 325 213 D5 Õ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
131 326 214 D6 Ö LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
132 327 215 D7 × MULTIPLICATION SIGN
133 330 216 D8 Ø LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
134 331 217 D9 Ù LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
135 332 218 DA Ú LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
136 333 219 DB Û LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
137 334 220 DC Ü LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
138 335 221 DD Ý LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
139 336 222 DE Þ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN
140 337 223 DF ß LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
141 340 224 E0 à LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
142 341 225 E1 á LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
143 342 226 E2 â LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
144 343 227 E3 ã LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
145 344 228 E4 ä LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
146 345 229 E5 å LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
147 346 230 E6 æ LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
148 347 231 E7 ç LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
149 350 232 E8 è LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
150 351 233 E9 é LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
151 352 234 EA ê LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
152 353 235 EB ë LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
153 354 236 EC ì LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
154 355 237 ED í LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
155 356 238 EE î LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
156 357 239 EF ï LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
157 360 240 F0 ð LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
158 361 241 F1 ñ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
159 362 242 F2 ò LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
160 363 243 F3 ó LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
161 364 244 F4 ô LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
162 365 245 F5 õ LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
163 366 246 F6 ö LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
164 367 247 F7 ÷ DIVISION SIGN
165 370 248 F8 ø LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
166 371 249 F9 ù LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
167 372 250 FA ú LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
168 373 251 FB û LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
169 374 252 FC ü LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
170 375 253 FD ý LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
171 376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
172 377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
173 .TE
174 .IP [1] 4
175 See
176 .BR groff_char (7)
177 (soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
178 paragraph 6.3.3)
179 or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
180 .BR "ISO 8859-1:1987" ,
181 paragraph 6.3.3.
182 .SH "SEE ALSO"
183 .BR ascii (7),
184 .BR iso_8859-15 (7)