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ISO Character Sets

The ISO 8859 character sets were determined in the 1980s by the ECMA (European Computer Manufacturer's Association) and are endorsed by the ISO (International Standards Organization). Each ISO 8859 set specifies a set of up to 191 characters (single 8-bit byte code representation) and is intended for specific language usage.

The font used to show each set is Bitstream Dutch 801 Roman.

These character sets are available through Custom Order only.


ISO 8859-01
West European
- Latin No. 1 for the following languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norweigian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
ISO 8859-02
East European - Latin No. 2 for the following languages:
Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Serbocroation, Slovak, and Slovene.
ISO 8859-03
South European - Latin No. 3 for the following languages:
Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, and Turkish.
ISO 8859-04
North European - Latin No. 4 for the following languages:
Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greenlandic, Lappish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish, and Norwegian.
ISO 8859-05 (Cyrillic)
Latin/Cyrillic for the following languages:
Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English, Macedonian, Russian, Serbocroation, and Ukrainian.
ISO 8859-06
Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-07
Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-08
Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-09
Turkish - Latin No. 5 for the following languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
ISO 8859-10
Nordic - Latin No. 6 for the following languages:
Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Sami (Lappish), and Swedish.
ISO 8859-15
Latin No.9 - update to Latin No. 1
Same languages as Latin No.1, but has characters substituted in place of the symbols ¦, ¨, /, ¸, ¼, ½, ¾, and also includes the Euro symbol.

 


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