ISO/IEC 8859-3

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ISO 8859-3, also known as Latin-3 or "South European" is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover Turkish, Maltese and Esperanto, though the introduction of ISO 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish.

ISO_8859-3:1988, more commonly known by its preferred mime name of ISO-8859-3 (note extra hyphen), is the IANA registered charset consisting of 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 encoding also has the aliases iso-ir-109, ISO_8859-3, latin3, l3 and csISOLatin3

The encoding remains popular with users of Esperanto, though use is waning as application support for Unicode becomes more common.

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ISO/IEC 8859-3
x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 xA xB xC xD xE xF
0x unused
1x
2x SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~  
8x unused
9x
Ax NBSP Ħ ˘ £ ¤   Ĥ § ¨ İ Ş Ğ Ĵ SHY   Ż
Bx ° ħ ² ³ ´ µ ĥ · ¸ ı ş ğ ĵ ½   ż
Cx À Á Â   Ä Ċ Ĉ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Dx   Ñ Ò Ó Ô Ġ Ö × Ĝ Ù Ú Û Ü Ŭ Ŝ ß
Ex à á â   ä ċ ĉ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
Fx   ñ ò ó ô ġ ö ÷ ĝ ù ú û ü ŭ ŝ ˙

In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

Code values 00-1F, 7F, 80-9F, A5, AE, BE, C3, D0, E3, and F0 are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-3.

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