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ISO_8859-15(7)            Linux Programmer's Manual           ISO_8859-15(7)

NAME         top

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

DESCRIPTION         top

       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    Central and 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   Latin/Thai
       ISO 8859-13   Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
       ISO 8859-14   Celtic (Latin-8)
       ISO 8859-15   West European languages (Latin-9)
       ISO 8859-16   Romanian (Latin-10)

ISO 8859-15 characters

       The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9),
       which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.  The
       fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment
       configured for ISO 8859-15.

       Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
       --------------------------------------------------------------------
       240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
       241   161   A1     ,i     INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
       242   162   A2     /c     CENT SIGN
       243   163   A3     -L     POUND SIGN
       244   164   A4     ox     EURO SIGN
       245   165   A5     =Y     YEN SIGN
       246   166   A6     |     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
       247   167   A7     S     SECTION SIGN
       250   168   A8     "     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
       251   169   A9    (C)    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    (R)    REGISTERED SIGN

       257   175   AF           MACRON
       260   176   B0     o     DEGREE SIGN
       261   177   B1     +-    PLUS-MINUS SIGN
       262   178   B2     2     SUPERSCRIPT TWO
       263   179   B3     3     SUPERSCRIPT THREE
       264   180   B4     '     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
       265   181   B5     ,u     MICRO SIGN
       266   182   B6     9|    PILCROW SIGN
       267   183   B7     .     MIDDLE DOT
       270   184   B8     ,     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    1/4    LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
       275   189   BD    1/2    LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
       276   190   BE    3/4    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
       277   191   BF     'c     INVERTED QUESTION MARK
       300   192   C0     `A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
       301   193   C1     'A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
       302   194   C2     ^A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       303   195   C3     ~A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
       304   196   C4     "A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
       305   197   C5     oA     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
       306   198   C6     AE    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
       307   199   C7     ,C     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
       310   200   C8     `E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
       311   201   C9     'E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
       312   202   CA     ^E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       313   203   CB     "E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
       314   204   CC     `I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
       315   205   CD     'I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
       316   206   CE     ^I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       317   207   CF     "I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
       320   208   D0     -D     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH
       321   209   D1     ~N     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
       322   210   D2     `O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
       323   211   D3     'O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
       324   212   D4     ^O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       325   213   D5     ~O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
       326   214   D6     "O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
       327   215   D7     x     MULTIPLICATION SIGN
       330   216   D8     /O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
       331   217   D9     `U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
       332   218   DA     'U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
       333   219   DB     ^U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       334   220   DC     "U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
       335   221   DD     'Y     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
       336   222   DE     Ib     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN
       337   223   DF     B     LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
       340   224   E0     `a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
       341   225   E1     'a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
       342   226   E2     ^a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       343   227   E3     ~a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
       344   228   E4     "a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
       345   229   E5     oa     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
       346   230   E6     ae    LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
       347   231   E7     ,c     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
       350   232   E8     `e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
       351   233   E9     'e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
       352   234   EA     ^e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       353   235   EB     "e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
       354   236   EC     `i     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
       355   237   ED     'i     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
       356   238   EE     ^i     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       357   239   EF     "i     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS

       360   240   F0     `'o     LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
       361   241   F1     ~n     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
       362   242   F2     `o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
       363   243   F3     'o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
       364   244   F4     ^o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       365   245   F5     ~o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
       366   246   F6     "o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
       367   247   F7    -:-    DIVISION SIGN
       370   248   F8     /o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
       371   249   F9     `u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
       372   250   FA     'u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
       373   251   FB     ^u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       374   252   FC     "u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
       375   253   FD     'y     LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
       376   254   FE     pb     LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
       377   255   FF     "y     LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

SEE ALSO         top

       ascii(7), iso_8859-1(7)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                            1999-05-31                   ISO_8859-15(7)

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