Chapter 4. Coded Character Sets And Encodings in the World
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4.2 ISO 8859
ISO 8859 is both a series of CCS and a series of encodings. It is an expansion of ASCII using all
8 bits. Additional 96 printable characters encoded in 0xa0   0xff are available besides 94 ASCII
printable characters.
There are 10 variants of ISO 8859 (in 1997).
ISO 8859 1 Latin alphabet No.1 (1987) characters for western European languages
ISO 8859 2 Latin alphabet No.2 (1987) characters for central European languages
ISO 8859 3 Latin alphabet No.3 (1988)
ISO 8859 4 Latin alphabet No.4 (1988) characters for northern European languages
ISO 8859 5 Latin/Cyrillic alphabet (1988)
ISO 8859 6 Latin/Arabic alphabet (1987)
ISO 8859 7 Latin/Greek alphabet (1987)
ISO 8859 8 Latin/Hebrew alphabet (1988)
ISO 8859 9 Latin alphabet No.5 (1989) same as ISO 8859 1 except for Turkish instead of Icelandic
ISO 8859 10 Latin alphabet No.6 (1993) Adds Inuit (Greenlandic) and Sami (Lappish) letters to
ISO 8859 4
ISO 8859 11 Latin/Thai alphabet (2001) same as TIS 620 Thai national standard
ISO 8859 13 Latin alphabet No.7 (1998)
ISO 8859 14 Latin alphabet No.8 (Celtic) (1998)
ISO 8859 15 Latin alphabet No.9 (1999)
ISO 8859 16 Latin alphabet No.10 (2001)
A detailed explanation is found at
http://park.kiev.ua/mutliling/ml docs/iso 8859.
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