ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. [1] The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards has been disbanded.

ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe) is a 8-bit single-byte coded character set. Also known as ISO Latin 1 . The first 128 characters are identical to UTF-8 (and UTF-16).

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology—8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987.

Aug 13, 2011 · ISO-8859. ISO-8859 is a family of single-byte encoding schemes used to represent alphabets that can be represented within the range of 127 to 255. These various alphabets are defined as "parts" in the format ISO-8859-n, the most familiar of these likely being ISO-8859-1 aka 'Latin-1'. As with UTF-8, 7-bit-safe ASCII remains unaffected ...

ISO-8859-1 was the default character in HTML 4.01. ISO (The International Standards Organization) defines the standard character sets for different alphabets/languages. The different variants of ISO-8859 are listed at the bottom of this page.

ISO-8859-15 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28605 a.k.a. Windows-28605 to ISO-8859-15.

Mapping ISO 8859-1 and Adobe Symbol font (an ISO 8879 subset) entity names onto Unicode; in HTML+ Proposed Character Entities Discussion Document by the W3C in ISO 8859-1 and Adobe orders. This table cross references ISO 8879, Adobe® PostScript®, and Unicode® names along with ISO 8859-1 / PostScript and Unicode hexadecimal character codes.

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1 Published (Edition 1, 1998) This publication was last reviewed and confirmed in 2020.

Apr 7, 2019 · ISO 8859-1 encodes what it refers to as “Latin alphabet no. 1,” consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script. This character-encoding scheme is used throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.

International Standard ISO/IEC 8859-1 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 2, Character sets and information coding. This edition cancels and replaces ISO 8859-1:1987 , which has been technically revised.