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Note: iso_8859-15 (aka Latin9) is basically an updated Western/Latin encoding. It is mostly identical to iso_8859_1(7) (aka Latin1), but a few of the rarely-used characters were dropped, and several new characters were added - most significantly, the Euro symbol (€) which wasn't around when iso_8859-1 was created.

The character positions different to iso_8859_1(7) are (in octal): 244 246 250 255 264 270 274 275 and 276.


NAME

iso_8859-15 - the ISO 8859-15 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). Especially important is ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII replacement. However, it lacks the EURO symbol and does not fully cover Finnish and French. ISO 8859-15 is a modification of ISO 8859-1 that covers these needs.

ISO 8859-15 supports the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish.

"ISO 8859 Alphabets"

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

|ISO 8859-1|west European languages (Latin-1) |ISO 8859-2|east European languages (Latin-2) |ISO 8859-3|southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3) |ISO 8859-4|Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) |ISO 8859-5|Latin/Cyrillic |ISO 8859-6|Latin/Arabic |ISO 8859-7|Latin/Greek |ISO 8859-8|Latin/Hebrew |ISO 8859-9|Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) |ISO 8859-10|Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) |ISO 8859-11|Thai |ISO 8859-13|Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) |ISO 8859-14|Celtic (Latin-8) |ISO 8859-15|west European languages (Latin-9)

"ISO 8859-15 Characters"

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-9, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

|Oct|Dec|Hex|Char|Description |240|160|A0| |NO-BREAK SPACE |241|161|A1|¡|INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK |242|162|A2|¢|CENT SIGN |243|163|A3|£|POUND SIGN |244|164|A4|€|EURO SIGN |245|165|A5|¥|YEN SIGN |246|166|A6|Š|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON |247|167|A7|§|SECTION SIGN |250|168|A8|š|LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON |251|169|A9|©|COPYRIGHT SIGN |252|170|AA|ª|FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR |253|171|AB|«|LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |254|172|AC|¬|NOT SIGN |255|173|AD|-|SOFT HYPHEN |256|174|AE|®|REGISTERED SIGN |257|175|AF|¯|MACRON |260|176|B0|°|DEGREE SIGN |261|177|B1|±|PLUS-MINUS SIGN |262|178|B2|²|SUPERSCRIPT TWO |263|179|B3|³|SUPERSCRIPT THREE |264|180|B4|Ž|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON |265|181|B5|µ|MICRO SIGN |266|182|B6|¶|PILCROW SIGN |267|183|B7|·|MIDDLE DOT |270|184|B8|ž|LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON |271|185|B9|¹|SUPERSCRIPT ONE |272|186|BA|º|MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR |273|187|BB|»|RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |274|188|BC|Œ|LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE |275|189|BD|œ|LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE |276|190|BE|¾|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS |277|191|BF|¿|INVERTED QUESTION MARK |300|192|C0|À|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE |301|193|C1|Á|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE |302|194|C2|Â|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX |303|195|C3|Ã|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE |304|196|C4|Ä|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS |305|197|C5|Å|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE |306|198|C6|Æ|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE |307|199|C7|Ç|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA |310|200|C8|È|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE |311|201|C9|É|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE |312|202|CA|Ê|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX |313|203|CB|Ë|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS |314|204|CC|Ì|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE |315|205|CD|Í|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE |316|206|CE|Î|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX |317|207|CF|Ï|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS |320|208|D0|Ð|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH |321|209|D1|Ñ|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE |322|210|D2|Ò|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE |323|211|D3|Ó|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE |324|212|D4|Ô|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX |325|213|D5|Õ|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE |326|214|D6|Ö|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS |327|215|D7|×|MULTIPLICATION SIGN |330|216|D8|Ø|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE |331|217|D9|Ù|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE |332|218|DA|Ú|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE |333|219|DB|Û|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX |334|220|DC|Ü|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS |335|221|DD|Ý|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE |336|222|DE|Þ|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN |337|223|DF|ß|LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S |340|224|E0|à|LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE |341|225|E1|á|LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE |342|226|E2|â|LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX |343|227|E3|ã|LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE |344|228|E4|ä|LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS |345|229|E5|å|LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE |346|230|E6|æ|LATIN SMALL LETTER AE |347|231|E7|ç|LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA |350|232|E8|è|LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE |351|233|E9|é|LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE |352|234|EA|ê|LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX |353|235|EB|ë|LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS |354|236|EC|ì|LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE |355|237|ED|í|LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE |356|238|EE|î|LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX |357|239|EF|ï|LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS |360|240|F0|ð|LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH |361|241|F1|ñ|LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE |362|242|F2|ò|LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE |363|243|F3|ó|LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE |364|244|F4|ô|LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX |365|245|F5|õ|LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE |366|246|F6|ö|LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS |367|247|F7|÷|DIVISION SIGN |370|248|F8|ø|LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE |371|249|F9|ù|LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE |372|250|FA|ú|LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE |373|251|FB|û|LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX |374|252|FC|ü|LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS |375|253|FD|ý|LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE |376|254|FE|þ|LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN |377|255|FF|ÿ|LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

SEE ALSO

ascii(7), iso_8859_1(7)

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