ISO/IEC 8859-2

ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central[1] or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2, PC Latin 2) which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions.[2]

ISO-8859-2 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. 0.2% of all web pages use ISO 8859-2 in June 2016.[3] Microsoft has assigned code page 28592 a.k.a. Windows-28592 to ISO-8859-2 in Windows. IBM assigned Code page 1111 to ISO 8859-2.

Codepage 1250 a.k.a. Windows-1250 has many of the same characters but in a different arrangement.

These code values can be used for the following languages:

It can also be used for Romanian, but it is unsuitable for that language, 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. Microsoft did not really provide such fonts for computers sold in Romania. Still, ISO/IEC 8859-2 and Windows-1250 (with the same problem) have been heavily used for Romanian. Unicode (which supports both variants) has taken the lead for web pages, which however often have s and t with cedilla anyway. Unicode notes as of 2014 that encoding the letters with comma below was a mistake, causing corruptions of Romanian data.

Code page layout

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 even in isolation may not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

Legend:

ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2)
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
 
0_
 
                               
 
1_
 
                               
 
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
 
 
8_
 
                               
 
9_
 
                               
 
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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