ISO/IEC 8859-2

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ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. 2, consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script, each encoded as a single 8-bit code value.

ISO_8859-2:1987, more commonly known by its preferred mime name of ISO-8859-2 (note extra hyphen), 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 character set also has the aliases ISO_8859-2, latin2, l2 and csISOLatin2.

This encoding shares a lot of assignments with windows-1250 but is not a strict subset of it (unlike the case with windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1).

These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following European languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian (also, see next paragraph), Serbian (in Latin transcription), Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. Furthermore it is suitable to represent some western European languages like Finnish (with the exception of å used in Swedish and Finnish) or German. When used alone, these latter languages are nominally using ISO 8859-1 encoding, but the needed codepoints are shared with ISO 8859-2, which is an important aspect for multi-lingual documents.

It may be argued that ISO 8859-2 is not really suitable for Romanian because of lack of letters s and t with commas below, containing s and t with cedillas instead. These letters were unified in the first versions of the Unicode standard, meaning that the appearance with cedilla or with comma was treated as a glyph choice rather than as separate characters; fonts intended for use with Romanian should, therefore, have characters with comma below at those code points.

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In the following table characters are shown together with their corresponding Unicode code points. Note that code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-2. Code 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NON-BREAKING SPACE. Code AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2)
—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		 Ą
0104
161		 ˘
02D8
162		 Ł
0141
163		 ¤
00A4
164		 Ľ
013D
165		 Ś
015A
166		 §
00A7
167		 ¨
00A8
168		 Š
0160
169		 Ş
015E
170		 Ť
0164
171		 Ź
0179
172		 SHY
00AD
173		 Ž
017D
174		 Ż
017B
175
 
B−
 		 °
00B0
176		 ą
0105
177		 ˛
02DB
178		 ł
0142
179		 ´
00B4
180		 ľ
013E
181		 ś
015B
182		 ˇ
02C7
183		 ¸
00B8
184		 š
0161
185		 ş
015F
186		 ť
0165
187		 ź
017A
188		 ˝
02DD
189		 ž
017E
190		 ż
017C
191
 
C−
 		 Ŕ
0154
192		 Á
00C1
193		 Â
00C2
194		 Ă
0102
195		 Ä
00C4
196		 Ĺ
0139
197		 Ć
0106
198		 Ç
00C7
199		 Č
010C
200		 É
00C9
201		 Ę
0118
202		 Ë
00CB
203		 Ě
011A
204		 Í
00CD
205		 Î
00CE
206		 Ď
010E
207
 
D−
 		 Đ
0110
208		 Ń
0143
209		 Ň
0147
210		 Ó
00D3
211		 Ô
00D4
212		 Ő
0150
213		 Ö
00D6
214		 ×
00D7
215		 Ř
0158
216		 Ů
016E
217		 Ú
00DA
218		 Ű
0170
219		 Ü
00DC
220		 Ý
00DD
221		 Ţ
0162
222		 ß
00DF
223
 
E−
 		 ŕ
0155
224		 á
00E1
225		 â
00E2
226		 ă
0103
227		 ä
00E4
228		 ĺ
013A
229		 ć
0107
230		 ç
00E7
231		 č
010D
232		 é
00E9
233		 ę
0119
234		 ë
00EB
235		 ě
011B
236		 í
00ED
237		 î
00EE
238		 ď
010F
239
 
F−
 		 đ
0111
240		 ń
0144
241		 ň
0148
242		 ó
00F3
243		 ô
00F4
244		 ő
0151
245		 ö
00F6
246		 ÷
00F7
247		 ř
0159
248		 ů
016F
249		 ú
00FA
250		 ű
0171
251		 ü
00FC
252		 ý
00FD
253		 ţ
0163
254		 ˙
02D9
255

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