ISO/IEC 8859-15
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ISO 8859-15 is part 15 of ISO 8859, a standard character encoding defined by International Organization for Standardization. It is also known as Latin-9, and unofficially as Latin-0 but not as Latin-15. It is similar to ISO 8859-1 but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some other characters that were missing. It encodes characters as 8 bits and can be used to represent the alphabet and other important characters for storing English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (among other western European languages) texts on computers.
ISO-8859-15 (note the extra hyphen between ISO and 8859) is the IANA charset name for this standard used together with the control codes from ISO/IEC 6429 for the C0 (0x00–0x1F) and C1 (0x80–0x9F) parts. Escape sequences (from ISO/IEC 6429 or ISO/IEC 2022) are not to be interpreted. This charset has aliases ISO_8859-15 and Latin-9.
All the printable characters from both ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-15 are also found in Windows-1252.
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[edit] Changes from ISO-8859-1
| Position | 0xA4 | 0xA6 | 0xA8 | 0xB4 | 0xB8 | 0xBC | 0xBD | 0xBE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8859-1 | ¤ | ¦ | ¨ | ´ | ¸ | ¼ | ½ | ¾ |
| 8859-15 | € | Š | š | Ž | ž | Œ | œ | Ÿ |
€ became necessary when the euro was introduced. The rest were excluded from ISO 8859-1 because it was motivated by information exchange and not typography. Š, š, Ž, and ž are used in some loanwords and transliteration of Russian names in Finnish and Estonian typography. Œ and œ are French ligatures, and Ÿ is needed in French all-caps text.
[edit] Coverage
ISO 8859-15 encodes what it refers to as "Latin alphabet no. 9". This character set is used throughout The Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa. It is also commonly used in most standard romanizations of East-Asian languages.
Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following languages:
- Modern languages with complete coverage of their alphabet
- Notes
1. Commonly supported with nearly complete coverage of the Dutch alphabet, as the missing IJ, ij should always be represented as two-character IJ or ij in electronic form.
2. US and modern British.
3. New orthography.
4. Basic classical orthography.
5. Rumi script.
6. Bokmål and Nynorsk.
7. European and Brazilian.
[edit] Coverage of punctuation signs and apostrophes
For some languages listed above the correct typographical quotation marks are missing, since only « », ", and ' are included.
Also, this encoding does not provide the correct character for the apostrophe, and oriented single high quotation marks, although some texts use the spacing grave accent and spacing acute accent which are both part of ISO 8859-1, instead of the 6-shaped/9-shaped quotations marks or apostrophes (and this works reliably with some font styles where all these characters are displayed as slanted wedge glyphs).
See also: Alphabets derived from the Latin
[edit] Codepage layout
The complete ISO-8859-15 table is shown below. Differences from ISO-8859-1 are outlined.
| ISO-8859-15 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| —0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 | —A | —B | —C | —D | —E | —F | |
| 0− |
NUL 0000 0 |
SOH 0001 1 |
STX 0002 2 |
ETX 0003 3 |
EOT 0004 4 |
ENQ 0005 5 |
ACK 0006 6 |
BEL 0007 7 |
BS 0008 8 |
HT 0009 9 |
LF 000A 10 |
VT 000B 11 |
FF 000C 12 |
CR 000D 13 |
SO 000E 14 |
SI 000F 15 |
| 1− |
DLE 0010 16 |
DC1 0011 17 |
DC2 0012 18 |
DC3 0013 19 |
DC4 0014 20 |
NAK 0015 21 |
SYN 0016 22 |
ETB 0017 23 |
CAN 0018 24 |
EM 0019 25 |
SUB 001A 26 |
ESC 001B 27 |
FS 001C 28 |
GS 001D 29 |
RS 001E 30 |
US 001F 31 |
| 2− |
SP 0020 32 |
! 0021 33 |
" 0022 34 |
# 0023 35 |
$ 0024 36 |
% 0025 37 |
& 0026 38 |
' 0027 39 |
( 0028 40 |
) 0029 41 |
* 002A 42 |
+ 002B 43 |
, 002C 44 |
- 002D 45 |
. 002E 46 |
/ 002F 47 |
| 3− |
0 0030 48 |
1 0031 49 |
2 0032 50 |
3 0033 51 |
4 0034 52 |
5 0035 53 |
6 0036 54 |
7 0037 55 |
8 0038 56 |
9 0039 57 |
: 003A 58 |
; 003B 59 |
< 003C 60 |
= 003D 61 |
> 003E 62 |
? 003F 63 |
| 4− |
@ 0040 64 |
A 0041 65 |
B 0042 66 |
C 0043 67 |
D 0044 68 |
E 0045 69 |
F 0046 70 |
G 0047 71 |
H 0048 72 |
I 0049 73 |
J 004A 74 |
K 004B 75 |
L 004C 76 |
M 004D 77 |
N 004E 78 |
O 004F 79 |
| 5− |
P 0050 80 |
Q 0051 81 |
R 0052 82 |
S 0053 83 |
T 0054 84 |
U 0055 85 |
V 0056 86 |
W 0057 87 |
X 0058 88 |
Y 0059 89 |
Z 005A 90 |
[ 005B 91 |
\ 005C 92 |
] 005D 93 |
^ 005E 94 |
_ 005F 95 |
| 6− |
` 0060 96 |
a 0061 97 |
b 0062 98 |
c 0063 99 |
d 0064 100 |
e 0065 101 |
f 0066 102 |
g 0067 103 |
h 0068 104 |
i 0069 105 |
j 006A 106 |
k 006B 107 |
l 006C 108 |
m 006D 109 |
n 006E 110 |
o 006F 111 |
| 7− |
p 0070 112 |
q 0071 113 |
r 0072 114 |
s 0073 115 |
t 0074 116 |
u 0075 117 |
v 0076 118 |
w 0077 119 |
x 0078 120 |
y 0079 121 |
z 007A 122 |
{ 007B 123 |
| 007C 124 |
} 007D 125 |
~ 007E 126 |
DEL 007F 127 |
| 8− |
PAD 0080 128 |
HOP 0081 129 |
BPH 0082 130 |
NBH 0083 131 |
IND 0084 132 |
NEL 0085 133 |
SSA 0086 134 |
ESA 0087 135 |
HTS 0088 136 |
HTJ 0089 137 |
VTS 008A 138 |
PLD 008B 139 |
PLU 008C 140 |
RI 008D 141 |
SS2 008E 142 |
SS3 008F 143 |
| 9− |
DCS 0090 144 |
PU1 0091 145 |
PU2 0092 146 |
STS 0093 147 |
CCH 0094 148 |
MW 0095 149 |
SPA 0096 150 |
EPA 0097 151 |
SOS 0098 152 |
SGCI 0099 153 |
SCI 009A 154 |
CSI 009B 155 |
ST 009C 156 |
OSC 009D 157 |
PM 009E 158 |
APC 009F 159 |
| A− |
NBSP 00A0 160 |
¡ 00A1 161 |
¢ 00A2 162 |
£ 00A3 163 |
€ 20AC 164 |
¥ 00A5 165 |
Š 0160 166 |
§ 00A7 167 |
š 0161 168 |
© 00A9 169 |
ª 00AA 170 |
« 00AB 171 |
¬ 00AC 172 |
SHY 00AD 173 |
® 00AE 174 |
¯ 00AF 175 |
| B− |
° 00B0 176 |
± 00B1 177 |
² 00B2 178 |
³ 00B3 179 |
Ž 017D 180 |
µ 00B5 181 |
¶ 00B6 182 |
· 00B7 183 |
ž 017E 184 |
¹ 00B9 185 |
º 00BA 186 |
» 00BB 187 |
Π0152 188 |
œ 0153 189 |
Ÿ 0178 190 |
¿ 00BF 191 |
| C− |
À 00C0 192 |
Á 00C1 193 |
 00C2 194 |
à 00C3 195 |
Ä 00C4 196 |
Å 00C5 197 |
Æ 00C6 198 |
Ç 00C7 199 |
È 00C8 200 |
É 00C9 201 |
Ê 00CA 202 |
Ë 00CB 203 |
Ì 00CC 204 |
Í 00CD 205 |
Î 00CE 206 |
Ï 00CF 207 |
| D− |
Ð 00D0 208 |
Ñ 00D1 209 |
Ò 00D2 210 |
Ó 00D3 211 |
Ô 00D4 212 |
Õ 00D5 213 |
Ö 00D6 214 |
× 00D7 215 |
Ø 00D8 216 |
Ù 00D9 217 |
Ú 00DA 218 |
Û 00DB 219 |
Ü 00DC 220 |
Ý 00DD 221 |
Þ 00DE 222 |
ß 00DF 223 |
| E− |
à 00E0 224 |
á 00E1 225 |
â 00E2 226 |
ã 00E3 227 |
ä 00E4 228 |
å 00E5 229 |
æ 00E6 230 |
ç 00E7 231 |
è 00E8 232 |
é 00E9 233 |
ê 00EA 234 |
ë 00EB 235 |
ì 00EC 236 |
í 00ED 237 |
î 00EE 238 |
ï 00EF 239 |
| F− |
ð 00F0 240 |
ñ 00F1 241 |
ò 00F2 242 |
ó 00F3 243 |
ô 00F4 244 |
õ 00F5 245 |
ö 00F6 246 |
÷ 00F7 247 |
ø 00F8 248 |
ù 00F9 249 |
ú 00FA 250 |
û 00FB 251 |
ü 00FC 252 |
ý 00FD 253 |
þ 00FE 254 |
ÿ 00FF 255 |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999
- 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-IR 203 European supplementary Latin set (September 16, 1998)
