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latin1 - ISO/IEC 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

NAME  DESCRIPTION  ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets  ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters  NOTES  SEE ALSO 

NAME

iso_8859-1 − ISO/IEC 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

The ISO/IEC 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO/IEC 646-IRV). ISO/IEC 8859-1 encodes the characters used in many West European languages.

ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes:  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-1 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

 

 

NOTES

ISO/IEC 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1.

SEE ALSO

ascii(7), charsets(7), cp1252(7), iso_8859−15(7), utf−8(7)


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