ISO/IEC 8859

ISO 8859 encoding family
StandardISO/IEC 8859
Classification8-bit extended ASCII, ISO/IEC 4873 level 1
ExtendsASCII
Preceded byISO/IEC 646
Succeeded byISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)
Other related encoding(s)ISO/IEC 10367, Windows-125x

ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12.[1] The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards has been disbanded.

ISO/IEC 8859 parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally Ecma International standard ECMA-94.

Introduction

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While the bit patterns of the 95 printable ASCII characters are sufficient to exchange information in modern English, most other languages that use Latin alphabets need additional symbols not covered by ASCII. ISO/IEC 8859 sought to remedy this problem by utilizing the eighth bit in an 8-bit byte to allow positions for another 96 printable characters. Early encodings were limited to 7 bits because of restrictions of some data transmission protocols, and partially for historical reasons. However, more characters were needed than could fit in a single 8-bit character encoding, so several mappings were developed, including at least ten suitable for various Latin alphabets.

The ISO/IEC 8859 standard parts only define printable characters, although they explicitly set apart the byte ranges 0x00–1F and 0x7F–9F as "combinations that do not represent graphic characters" (i.e. which are reserved for use as control characters) in accordance with ISO/IEC 4873; they were designed to be used in conjunction with a separate standard defining the control functions associated with these bytes, such as ISO 6429 or ISO 6630.[2] To this end a series of encodings registered with the IANA add the C0 control set (control characters mapped to bytes 0 to 31) from ISO 646 and the C1 control set (control characters mapped to bytes 128 to 159) from ISO 6429, resulting in full 8-bit character maps with most, if not all, bytes assigned. These sets have ISO-8859-n as their preferred MIME name or, in cases where a preferred MIME name is not specified, their canonical name. Many people use the terms ISO/IEC 8859-n and ISO-8859-n interchangeably. ISO/IEC 8859-11 did not get such a charset assigned, presumably because it was almost identical to TIS 620.

Characters

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The ISO/IEC 8859 standard is designed for reliable information exchange, not typography; the standard omits symbols needed for high-quality typography, such as optional ligatures, curly quotation marks, dashes, etc. As a result, high-quality typesetting systems often use proprietary or idiosyncratic extensions on top of the ASCII and ISO/IEC 8859 standards, or use Unicode instead.

An inexact rule based on practical experience states that if a character or symbol was not already part of a widely used data-processing character set and was also not usually provided on typewriter keyboards for a national language, it did not get in. Hence the directional double quotation marks « and » used for some European languages were included, but not the directional double quotation marks “ and ” used for English and some other languages.

French did not get its œ and Œ ligatures because they could be typed as 'oe'. Likewise, Ÿ, needed for all-caps text, was dropped as well.[3][4][5] Albeit under different codepoints, these three characters were later reintroduced with ISO/IEC 8859-15 in 1999, which also introduced the new euro sign character €. Likewise Dutch did not get the ij and IJ letters, because Dutch speakers had become used to typing these as two letters instead.

Romanian did not initially get its Ș/ș and Ț/ț (with comma) letters, because these letters were initially unified with Ş/ş and Ţ/ţ (with cedilla) by the Unicode Consortium, considering the shapes with comma beneath to be glyph variants of the shapes with cedilla. However, the letters with explicit comma below were later added to the Unicode standard and are also in ISO/IEC 8859-16.

Most of the ISO/IEC 8859 encodings provide diacritic marks required for various European languages using the Latin script. Others provide non-Latin alphabets: Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Thai. Most of the encodings contain only spacing characters, although the Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic ones do also contain combining characters.

The standard makes no provision for the scripts of East Asian languages (CJK), as their ideographic writing systems require many thousands of code points. Although it uses Latin based characters, Vietnamese does not fit into 96 positions (without using combining diacritics such as in Windows-1258) either. Each Japanese syllabic alphabet (hiragana or katakana, see Kana) would fit, as in JIS X 0201, but like several other alphabets of the world they are not encoded in the ISO/IEC 8859 system.

The parts of ISO/IEC 8859

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ISO/IEC 8859 is divided into the following parts:

Part Name Revisions Other standards Description
Part 1 Latin-1
Western European 		1987, 1998 ECMA-94 (1985, 1986) Perhaps the most widely used part of ISO/IEC 8859, covering most Western European languages: Danish (partial),[nb 1] Dutch,[nb 2] English, Faeroese, Finnish (partial),[nb 3] French (partial),[nb 3] German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Catalan, and Swedish. Languages from other parts of the world are also covered, including: Eastern European Albanian, Southeast Asian Indonesian, as well as the African languages Afrikaans and Swahili.

A modification of DEC MCS; the first (1985) standard version at the ECMA level lacked the times sign and division obelus, which were added the next year. The missing euro sign and capital Ÿ are in the revised version ISO/IEC 8859-15 (see below). The corresponding IANA character set is ISO-8859-1.

Part 2 Latin-2
Central European 		1987, 1999 ECMA-94 (1986)[nb 4] Supports those Central and Eastern European languages that use the Latin alphabet, including Bosnian, Polish, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, and Hungarian. The missing euro sign can be found in version ISO/IEC 8859-16.
Part 3 Latin-3
South European 		1988, 1999 Turkish, Maltese, and Esperanto. Largely superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-9 for Turkish.
Part 4 Latin-4
North European 		1988, 1998 Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, and Sami.
Part 5 Latin/Cyrillic 1988, 1999 ECMA-113 (1988, 1999)[nb 5] Covers mostly Slavic languages that use a Cyrillic alphabet, including Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian (partial).[nb 6]
Part 6 Latin/Arabic 1987, 1999
Covers the most common Arabic language characters. Does not support other languages using the Arabic script. Needs to be BiDi and cursive joining processed for display.
Part 7 Latin/Greek 1987, 2003
Covers the modern Greek language (monotonic orthography). Can also be used for Ancient Greek written without accents or in monotonic orthography, but lacks the diacritics for polytonic orthography. These were introduced with Unicode. Updated 2003 to add the euro sign, drachma sign and spacing ypogegrammeni.
Part 8 Latin/Hebrew 1988, 1999
Covers the modern Hebrew alphabet as used in Israel. In practice two different encodings exist, logical order (needs to be BiDi processed for display) and visual (left-to-right) order (in effect, after bidi processing and line breaking). Updated 1999 to add LRM and RLM. Updated at national standard level in 2002 to add euro and shekel signs and more bidirectional format effectors; the 2002 additions were never incorporated back into the ISO standard version.
Part 9 Latin-5
Turkish 		1989, 1999
Largely the same as ISO/IEC 8859-1, replacing the rarely used Icelandic letters with Turkish ones.
Part 10 Latin-6
Nordic 		1992, 1998 ECMA-144 (1990, 1992, 2000) A rearrangement of Latin-4. Considered more useful for Nordic languages. Baltic languages use Latin-4 more.
Part 11 Latin/Thai 2001 TIS-620 (1986, 1990) Contains characters needed for the Thai language. First revision established in 1986 at national standard level as TIS 620. Elevated to ISO standard status as a part of ISO 8859 in 2001, with the addition of a non-breaking space.
Part 12 Latin/Devanagari N/A - Originally proposed to support the Celtic languages,[6][7] then slated for Latin/Devanagari,[8] but abandoned in 1997, during the 12th meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3.[9] The Celtic proposal was changed to ISO 8859-14, with part 12 possibly being reserved for ISCII Indian.[10]
Part 13 Latin-7
Baltic Rim 		1998 - Added some characters for Baltic languages which were missing from Latin-4 and Latin-6. Related to the earlier-published[nb 7] Windows-1257.
Part 14 Latin-8
Celtic 		1998 - Covers Celtic languages such as Gaelic and the Breton language. Welsh letters correspond to the earlier (1994) ISO-IR-182.
Part 15 Latin-9 1999 - A revision of 8859-1 that removes some little-used symbols, replacing them with the euro sign € and the letters Š, š, Ž, ž, Œ, œ, and Ÿ, which completes the coverage of French, Finnish and Estonian.
Part 16 Latin-10
South-Eastern European 		2001 SR 14111 (1998) Intended for Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Slovene, but also Finnish, French, German and Irish Gaelic (new orthography). The focus lies more on letters than symbols. The generic currency sign is replaced with the euro sign.

Each part of ISO/IEC 8859 is designed to support languages that often borrow from each other, so the characters needed by each language are usually accommodated by a single part. However, there are some characters and language combinations that are not accommodated without transcriptions. Efforts were made to make conversions as smooth as possible. For example, German has all of its seven special characters at the same positions in all Latin variants (1–4, 9, 10, 13–16), and in many positions the characters only differ in the diacritics between the sets. In particular, variants 1–4 were designed jointly, and have the property that every encoded character appears either at a given position or not at all.

Table

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Comparison of the various parts (1–16) of ISO/IEC 8859
Binary Oct Dec Hex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16
1010 0000 240 160 A0 Non-breaking space (NBSP)
1010 0001 241 161 A1 ¡ Ą Ħ Ą Ё   ‘   ¡ Ą ก ” Ḃ ¡ Ą
1010 0010 242 162 A2 ¢ ˘ ĸ Ђ   ’ ¢ Ē ข ¢ ḃ ¢ ą
1010 0011 243 163 A3 £ Ł £ Ŗ Ѓ   £ Ģ ฃ £ Ł
1010 0100 244 164 A4 ¤ Є ¤ € ¤ Ī ค ¤ Ċ €
1010 0101 245 165 A5 ¥ Ľ   Ĩ Ѕ   ₯ ¥ Ĩ ฅ „ ċ ¥ „
1010 0110 246 166 A6 ¦ Ś Ĥ Ļ І   ¦ Ķ ฆ ¦ Ḋ Š
1010 0111 247 167 A7 § Ї   § ง §
1010 1000 250 168 A8 ¨ Ј   ¨ Ļ จ Ø Ẁ š
1010 1001 251 169 A9 © Š İ Š Љ   © Đ ฉ ©
1010 1010 252 170 AA ª Ş Ē Њ   ͺ × ª Š ช Ŗ Ẃ ª Ș
1010 1011 253 171 AB « Ť Ğ Ģ Ћ   « Ŧ ซ « ḋ «
1010 1100 254 172 AC ¬ Ź Ĵ Ŧ Ќ ، ¬ Ž ฌ ¬ Ỳ ¬ Ź
1010 1101 255 173 AD Soft hyphen (SHY) ญ SHY
1010 1110 256 174 AE ® Ž   Ž Ў     ® Ū ฎ ® ź
1010 1111 257 175 AF ¯ Ż ¯ Џ   ― ¯ Ŋ ฏ Æ Ÿ ¯ Ż
1011 0000 260 176 B0 ° А   ° ฐ ° Ḟ °
1011 0001 261 177 B1 ± ą ħ ą Б   ± ą ฑ ± ḟ ±
1011 0010 262 178 B2 ² ˛ ² ˛ В   ² ē ฒ ² Ġ ² Č
1011 0011 263 179 B3 ³ ł ³ ŗ Г   ³ ģ ณ ³ ġ ³ ł
1011 0100 264 180 B4 ´ Д   ΄ ´ ī ด “ Ṁ Ž
1011 0101 265 181 B5 µ ľ µ ĩ Е   ΅ µ ĩ ต µ ṁ µ ”
1011 0110 266 182 B6 ś ĥ ļ Ж   Ά ķ ถ
1011 0111 267 183 B7 · ˇ · ˇ З   · ท · Ṗ ·
1011 1000 270 184 B8 ¸ И   Έ ¸ ļ ธ ø ẁ ž
1011 1001 271 185 B9 ¹ š ı š Й   Ή ¹ đ น ¹ ṗ ¹ č
1011 1010 272 186 BA º ş ē К   Ί ÷ º š บ ŗ ẃ º ș
1011 1011 273 187 BB » ť ğ ģ Л ؛ » ŧ ป » Ṡ »
1011 1100 274 188 BC ¼ ź ĵ ŧ М   Ό ¼ ž ผ ¼ ỳ Œ
1011 1101 275 189 BD ½ ˝ ½ Ŋ Н   ½ ― ฝ ½ Ẅ œ
1011 1110 276 190 BE ¾ ž   ž О   Ύ ¾ ū พ ¾ ẅ Ÿ
1011 1111 277 191 BF ¿ ż ŋ П ؟ Ώ   ¿ ŋ ฟ æ ṡ ¿ ż
1100 0000 300 192 C0 À Ŕ À Ā Р   ΐ   À Ā ภ Ą À
1100 0001 301 193 C1 Á С ء Α   Á ม Į Á
1100 0010 302 194 C2 Â Т آ Β   Â ย Ā Â
1100 0011 303 195 C3 Ã Ă   Ã У أ Γ   Ã ร Ć Ã Ă
1100 0100 304 196 C4 Ä Ф ؤ Δ   Ä ฤ Ä
1100 0101 305 197 C5 Å Ĺ Ċ Å Х إ Ε   Å ล Å Ć
1100 0110 306 198 C6 Æ Ć Ĉ Æ Ц ئ Ζ   Æ ฦ Ę Æ
1100 0111 307 199 C7 Ç Į Ч ا Η   Ç Į ว Ē Ç
1100 1000 310 200 C8 È Č È Č Ш ب Θ   È Č ศ Č È
1100 1001 311 201 C9 É Щ ة Ι   É ษ É
1100 1010 312 202 CA Ê Ę Ê Ę Ъ ت Κ   Ê Ę ส Ź Ê
1100 1011 313 203 CB Ë Ы ث Λ   Ë ห Ė Ë
1100 1100 314 204 CC Ì Ě Ì Ė Ь ج Μ   Ì Ė ฬ Ģ Ì
1100 1101 315 205 CD Í Э ح Ν   Í อ Ķ Í
1100 1110 316 206 CE Î Ю خ Ξ   Î ฮ Ī Î
1100 1111 317 207 CF Ï Ď Ï Ī Я د Ο   Ï ฯ Ļ Ï
Binary Oct Dec Hex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16
1101 0000 320 208 D0 Ð Đ   Đ а ذ Π   Ğ Ð ะ Š Ŵ Ð
1101 0001 321 209 D1 Ñ Ń Ñ Ņ б ر Ρ   Ñ Ņ ั Ń Ñ Ń
1101 0010 322 210 D2 Ò Ň Ò Ō в ز     Ò Ō า Ņ Ò
1101 0011 323 211 D3 Ó Ķ г س Σ   Ó ำ Ó
1101 0100 324 212 D4 Ô д ش Τ   Ô ิ Ō Ô
1101 0101 325 213 D5 Õ Ő Ġ Õ е ص Υ   Õ ี Õ Ő
1101 0110 326 214 D6 Ö ж ض Φ   Ö ึ Ö
1101 0111 327 215 D7 × з ط Χ   × Ũ ื × Ṫ × Ś
1101 1000 330 216 D8 Ø Ř Ĝ Ø и ظ Ψ   Ø ุ Ų Ø Ű
1101 1001 331 217 D9 Ù Ů Ù Ų й ع Ω   Ù Ų ู Ł Ù
1101 1010 332 218 DA Ú к غ Ϊ   Ú ฺ Ś Ú
1101 1011 333 219 DB Û Ű Û л   Ϋ   Û   Ū Û
1101 1100 334 220 DC Ü м   ά   Ü   Ü
1101 1101 335 221 DD Ý Ŭ Ũ н   έ   İ Ý   Ż Ý Ę
1101 1110 336 222 DE Þ Ţ Ŝ Ū о   ή   Ş Þ   Ž Ŷ Þ Ț
1101 1111 337 223 DF ß п   ί ‗ ß ฿ ß
1110 0000 340 224 E0 à ŕ à ā р ـ ΰ א à ā เ ą à
1110 0001 341 225 E1 á с ف α ב á แ į á
1110 0010 342 226 E2 â т ق β ג â โ ā â
1110 0011 343 227 E3 ã ă   ã у ك γ ד ã ใ ć ã ă
1110 0100 344 228 E4 ä ф ل δ ה ä ไ ä
1110 0101 345 229 E5 å ĺ ċ å х م ε ו å ๅ å ć
1110 0110 346 230 E6 æ ć ĉ æ ц ن ζ ז æ ๆ ę æ
1110 0111 347 231 E7 ç į ч ه η ח ç į ็ ē ç
1110 1000 350 232 E8 è č è č ш و θ ט è č ่ č è
1110 1001 351 233 E9 é щ ى ι י é ้ é
1110 1010 352 234 EA ê ę ê ę ъ ي κ ך ê ę ๊ ź ê
1110 1011 353 235 EB ë ы ً λ כ ë ๋ ė ë
1110 1100 354 236 EC ì ě ì ė ь ٌ μ ל ì ė ์ ģ ì
1110 1101 355 237 ED í э ٍ ν ם í ํ ķ í
1110 1110 356 238 EE î ю َ ξ מ î ๎ ī î
1110 1111 357 239 EF ï ď ï ī я ُ ο ן ï ๏ ļ ï
1111 0000 360 240 F0 ð đ   đ № ِ π נ ğ ð ๐ š ŵ ð đ
1111 0001 361 241 F1 ñ ń ñ ņ ё ّ ρ ס ñ ņ ๑ ń ñ ń
1111 0010 362 242 F2 ò ň ò ō ђ ْ ς ע ò ō ๒ ņ ò
1111 0011 363 243 F3 ó ķ ѓ   σ ף ó ๓ ó
1111 0100 364 244 F4 ô є   τ פ ô ๔ ō ô
1111 0101 365 245 F5 õ ő ġ õ ѕ   υ ץ õ ๕ õ ő
1111 0110 366 246 F6 ö і   φ צ ö ๖ ö
1111 0111 367 247 F7 ÷ ї   χ ק ÷ ũ ๗ ÷ ṫ ÷ ś
1111 1000 370 248 F8 ø ř ĝ ø ј   ψ ר ø ๘ ų ø ű
1111 1001 371 249 F9 ù ů ù ų љ   ω ש ù ų ๙ ł ù
1111 1010 372 250 FA ú њ   ϊ ת ú ๚ ś ú
1111 1011 373 251 FB û ű û ћ   ϋ   û ๛ ū û
1111 1100 374 252 FC ü ќ   ό   ü   ü
1111 1101 375 253 FD ý ŭ ũ §   ύ LRM ı ý   ż ý ę
1111 1110 376 254 FE þ ţ ŝ ū ў   ώ RLM ş þ   ž ŷ þ ț
1111 1111 377 255 FF ÿ ˙ џ       ÿ ĸ   ’ ÿ
Binary Oct Dec Hex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16

  unassigned code points.
  new additions in ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003 and ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999 versions, previously unassigned.

Relationship to Unicode and the UCS

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Since 1991, the Unicode Consortium has been working with ISO and IEC to develop the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646: the Universal Character Set (UCS) in tandem. Newer editions of ISO/IEC 8859 express characters in terms of their Unicode/UCS names and the U+nnnn notation, effectively causing each part of ISO/IEC 8859 to be a Unicode/UCS character encoding scheme that maps a very small subset of the UCS to single 8-bit bytes. The first 256 characters in Unicode and the UCS are identical to those in ISO/IEC-8859-1 (Latin-1).

Single-byte character sets including the parts of ISO/IEC 8859 and derivatives of them were favoured throughout the 1990s, having the advantages of being well-established and more easily implemented in software: the equation of one byte to one character is simple and adequate for most single-language applications, and there are no combining characters or variant forms. As Unicode-enabled operating systems became more widespread, ISO/IEC 8859 and other legacy encodings became less popular. While remnants of ISO 8859 and single-byte character models remain entrenched in many operating systems, programming languages, data storage systems, networking applications, display hardware, and end-user application software, most modern computing applications use Unicode internally, and rely on conversion tables to map to and from other encodings, when necessary.

Current status

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The ISO/IEC 8859 standard was maintained by ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 2, Working Group 3 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3). In June 2004, WG 3 disbanded, and maintenance duties were transferred to SC 2. The standard is not currently being updated, as the Subcommittee's only remaining working group, WG 2, is concentrating on development of Unicode's Universal Coded Character Set.

The WHATWG Encoding Standard, which specifies the character encodings permitted in HTML5 which compliant browsers must support,[12] includes most parts of ISO/IEC 8859,[13] except for parts 1, 9 and 11, which are instead interpreted as Windows-1252, Windows-1254 and Windows-874 respectively.[14] Authors of new pages and the designers of new protocols are instructed to use UTF-8 instead.[14]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Missing several accented vowels including Ǿ and ǿ. These can be replaced with non-accented vowels at the cost of increased ambiguity.
  2. ^ The ISO 8859 encodings treat IJ as a digraph. Some other encodings treat it as a letter.
  3. ^ a b Missing characters are in ISO/IEC 8859-15.
  4. ^ The 1985 edition includes only a version of ISO-8859-1.
  5. ^ The 1986 edition defines KOI8-E, which is an entirely different encoding.
  6. ^ 8859-5 misses the Ґ/ґ letter, which was reintroduced into the Ukrainian alphabet in 1990.
  7. ^ Published 1995, registered 1996.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Chaudhuri, Arindam; Mandaviya, Krupa; Badelia, Pratixa; Ghosh, Soumya K. (2016-12-24), "Optical Character Recognition Systems for French Language", Optical Character Recognition Systems for Different Languages with Soft Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 109–136, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50252-6_5, ISBN 978-3-319-50251-9, retrieved 2023-12-04
  2. ^ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3 (1998-02-12). Final Text of DIS 8859-1, 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No.1 (PDF). ISO/IEC FDIS 8859-1:1998; JTC1/SC2/N2988; WG3/N411. This set of coded graphic characters may be regarded as a version of an 8-bit code according to ISO/IEC 2022 or ISO/IEC 4873 at level 1. [...] The shaded positions in the code table correspond to bit combinations that do not represent graphic characters. Their use is outside the scope of ISO/IEC 8859; it is specified in other International Standards, for example ISO/IEC 6429.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Haralambous, Yannis (September 2007). Fonts & Encodings. Translated by Horne, P. Scott (1st ed.). Sebastopol, California, USA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5. According to an urban legend, the French delegate was out sick the day when the standard came up for a vote and had to have his Belgian counterpart act as his proxy. In fact, the French delegate was an engineer, who was convinced that this ligature was useless, and the Swiss and German representatives pressed hard to have the mathematical symbols × and ÷ included at the positions where Œ and œ would logically appear.
  4. ^ André, Jacques (2003-10-15) [2003-10-02]. André, Bernard; Baron, Georges-Louis; Bruillard, Éric (eds.). "Histoire d'Œ, histoire d'@ des rumeurs typographiques et de leurs enseignements". Traitement de Texte et Production de Documents INRP/GEDIAPS (in French): 19–34. Archived from the original on 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  5. ^ André, Jacques (November 1996). "ISO Latin-1, norme de codage des caractères européens? trois caractères français en sont absents!" (PDF). Cahiers GUTenberg (in French) (25): 65–77. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-30.
  6. ^ Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-12 (later 14)".
  7. ^ Czyborra, Roman (1997-10-12). "The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup". Archived from the original on 2000-08-17. (NB. "Celtic" note on old Czyborra page.)
  8. ^ Jarnefors, Olle (1996-04-11). "ISO-8859-10; registration of new charset values; error in MIME draft". Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. (NB. Note about forthcoming "Devanagari" standard part on IETF charsets mailing list.)
  9. ^ "Resolutions of the 12th Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3, Iraklion-Crete, Greece, 1997-07-04, 07" (PDF). Iraklion-Crete, Greece: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 2933, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3 N 401. 1997-07-04. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-07. WG 3 resolves to suspend any activities on this subject until general agreement on combining characters is obtained and until the further contributions are received.
  10. ^ Czyborra, Roman (1998-12-01). "The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup". Archived from the original on 2016-03-20. (NB. "ISCII" note on new Czyborra page.)
  11. ^ Lazhintseva, Katya (1996-05-03). "Registration of new MIME charset: Windows-1257". IANA.
  12. ^ "8.2.2.3. Character encodings". HTML 5.1 2nd Edition. W3C. User agents must support the encodings defined in the WHATWG Encoding standard, including, but not limited to [...]
  13. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "Legacy single-byte encodings". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  14. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "Names and labels". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

Further reading

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  • Published versions of each part of ISO/IEC 8859 are available, for a fee, from the ISO catalogue site and from the IEC Webstore.
  • PDF versions of the final drafts of some parts of ISO/IEC 8859 as submitted to the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3 for review & publication are available at the WG 3 web site:
    • ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1 (draft dated February 12, 1998, published April 15, 1998)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4 (draft dated February 12, 1998, published July 1, 1998)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-7:1999 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet (draft dated June 10, 1999; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, published October 10, 2003)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-10:1998 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6 (draft dated February 12, 1998, published July 15, 1998)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-11:1999 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 11: Latin/Thai character set (draft dated June 22, 1999; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-11:2001, published 15 December 2001)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7 (draft dated April 15, 1998, published October 15, 1998)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-15:1998 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9 (draft dated August 1, 1997; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, published March 15, 1999)
    • ISO/IEC 8859-16:2000 - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10 (draft dated November 15, 1999; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, published July 15, 2001)
  • ECMA standards, which in intent correspond exactly to the ISO/IEC 8859 character set standards, can be found at:
    • Standard ECMA-94: 8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)
    • Standard ECMA-113: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Cyrillic Alphabet 3rd edition (December 1999)
    • Standard ECMA-114: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Arabic Alphabet 2nd edition (December 2000)
    • Standard ECMA-118: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Greek Alphabet (December 1986)
    • Standard ECMA-121: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin/Hebrew Alphabet 2nd edition (December 2000)
    • Standard ECMA-128: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabet No. 5 2nd edition (December 1999)
    • Standard ECMA-144: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Character Sets - Latin Alphabet No. 6 3rd edition (December 2000)
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1 to Unicode mapping tables as plain text files are at the Unicode FTP site.
  • Informal descriptions and code charts for most ISO/IEC 8859 standards are available in ISO/IEC 8859 Alphabet Soup (Mirror)
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