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trans V1.30 2001-02-22
ISO/IEC 8859 Character
Encoding Information
ISO/IEC 8859
All ISO/IEC 8859 Character Encodings have some things in
common:
- 8-bit encodings
- Code points 00-7F
are identical to code points 00-7F in ISO/IEC 646:1991
(IRV).
- Code points 80-9F
are undefined.
Apparently Unicode seems to think otherwise since in their
ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999 table the code points 30-39 are mapped to ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT instead of
plain DIGIT. I
assume this is an error.
I strongly recommend using ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 instead.
The time for 8-bit encodings is over, IMO.
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 aka
ECMA-94 aka LATIN ALPHABET No. 1
| file |
|
iso8859.1 |
| languages supported |
|
Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish,
French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. |
ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999 aka
ECMA-94 aka LATIN ALPHABET No. 2
| file |
|
iso8859.2 |
| languages supported |
|
Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian,
Polish, Rumanian, (Serbo-)Croatian, Slovak, Slovene
and Swedish. |
ISO/IEC 8859-3:1999 aka
ECMA-94 aka LATIN ALPHABET No. 3
| file |
|
iso8859.3 |
| languages supported |
|
Afrikaans, Catalan, English, Esperanto, French,
Galician, German, Italian, Maltese and Turkish. |
| undefined code points |
|
A5, AE, BE, C3,
D0, E3, F0 |
ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998 aka
ECMA-94 aka LATIN ALPHABET No. 4
| file |
|
iso8859.4 |
| languages supported |
|
Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German,
Greenlandic, Lappish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian
and Swedish. |
ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999 aka
ECMA-113 aka LATIN/CYRILLIC ALPHABET
| file |
|
iso8859.5 |
| languages supported |
|
Bulgarian, Bielorussian, English, Macedonian,
Russian, Serb(o-Croat)ian and Ukrainian. |
ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999 aka
ECMA-114 aka LATIN/ARABIC ALPHABET
Also known as ASMO 449.
| file |
|
iso8859.6 |
| languages supported |
|
This set of graphic character is intended for use
in information interchange as well as in data and
text processing applications where both the Arabic
and the Latin scripts are used. |
| undefined code points |
|
A1-A3, A5-AB,
AE-BA, BC-BE, C0, DB-DF, F3-FF |
Unicode mappings indicate that code points 30-39 are not DIGIT but ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT which I somehow
doubt since it would be the only ISO 8859-x encoding that is
not 100% ISO 646.IRV compatible.
ISO 8859-7:1987 aka ECMA-118
aka LATIN/GREEK ALPHABET
Also known as ELOT-928.
| file |
|
iso8859.7 |
| languages supported |
|
This set is suited for multiple-language
applications involving the Latin and the Greek
scripts. It allows handling of data and text
expressed in Greek. |
| undefined code points |
|
A4-A5, AA, AE,
D2, FF |
Unicode mappings differ at two code points: A1, A2
I believe Unicode is in error here.
ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999 aka
ECMA-121 aka LATIN/HEBREW ALPHABET
| file |
|
iso8859.8 |
| languages supported |
|
This set is suited for multiple-language
applications involving the Latin and the Hebrew
scripts. It allows handling of data and text
expressed in Hebrew. |
| undefined code points |
|
A1, BF-DE, FB-FF |
Unicode mappings seem to have a wrong code for code point AF. Should be MACRON.
ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999 aka
ECMA-128 aka LATIN ALPHABET No. 5
| file |
|
iso8859.9 |
| languages supported |
|
English, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish and
Turkish. |
ISO/IEC 8859-10:1998 aka
ECMA-144 aka LATIN ALPHABET No. 6
| file |
|
iso8859.10 |
| languages supported |
|
Danish, English, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish,
German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Lappish, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Norwegian and Swedish. |
ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998 aka
LATIN ALPHABET No. 7 - Baltic Rim
ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998 aka
LATIN ALPHABET No. 8 - Celtic
ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999 aka
LATIN ALPHABET No. 9