- ISO/IEC 8859-15
ISO 8859-15 is part 15 of
ISO 8859 , a standardcharacter encoding defined byInternational Organization for Standardization . It is also known as Latin-9, and unofficially as Latin-0 but "not" as Latin-15. It is similar to ISO 8859-1 but replaces some less common symbols with theeuro sign and some other characters that were missing. It encodes characters as 8 bits and can be used to represent thealphabet and other important characters for storing English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (among other western European languages) texts oncomputer s.ISO-8859-15 ("note the extra hyphen between ISO and 8859") 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 orISO/IEC 2022 ) are not to be interpreted. This charset has aliases ISO_8859-15 and Latin-9.All the printable characters from both ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-15 are also found in
Windows-1252 .Changes from ISO-8859-1
ee also
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Western Latin character sets (computing) External links
* [http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=29505&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3= ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999]
* [http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n404.pdf ISO/IEC 8859-15:1998] - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9 "(draft dated August 1, 1997; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, published March 15, 1999)"
* [http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/203.pdf ISO-IR 203] European supplementary Latin set "(September 16, 1998)"
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