These character sets are extensions of ASCII where the 8th bit is used. The 0..127 range is identical to US-ASCII.
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| Name | Short Name | Covered Languages | MS Windows counterpart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO 8859-1 | Latin-1 | Western and West European languages (English, German, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, etc.) As these languages are used in large parts of the world (Europe, Americas, Australia, Africa), these are the most widely used character sets. Windows 1252 and ISO 8895-1 are equal in the 160..255 range |
windows-1252 | |
| ISO 8859-2 | Latin-2 | Central and East European languages (Czech, Polish, etc.) | windows-1250 | |
| ISO 8859-3 | Latin-3 | South European, Maltese, Esperanto | ||
| ISO 8859-4 | Latin-4 | North European | ||
| ISO 8859-5 | Cyrillic | Russian, Ucrainian | windows-1251 | |
| ISO 8859-6 | Arabic | Arabic | windows-1256 | |
| ISO 8859-7 | Greek | Modern Greek | windows-1253 | |
| ISO 8859-8 | Hebrew | Hebrew | windows-1255 | |
| ISO 8859-9 | Latin-5 | Turkish | windows-1254 | |
| ISO 8859-10 | Latin-6 | Nordic (Sami, Inuit, Icelandic) | ||
| ISO 8859-11 | Thai | Thai | windows-874 | |
| ISO 8859-13 | Latin-7 | Baltic | windows-1257 | |
| ISO 8859-14 | Latin-8 | Celtic | ||
| ISO 8859-15 | Latin-9 | Western European languages. Similar to ISO 8859-1, adds Euro sign (€) and a few other characters | ||
| ISO 8859-16 | Latin-10 | South Eastern European languages (Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, but also Finnish, French, German and Irish Gaelic) | ||