June 2006
Beginner
688 pages
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Standard Name of alphabet Characterization ECMA
ISO 8859‑10 Latin alphabet No. 6 “Nordic” (Sámi, Inuit, Icelandic) 144
ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai alphabet (For the Thai language)
(There is no part 12; it was planned to cover Devana-
gari, but the idea was abandoned.)
ISO 8859-13 Latin alphabet No. 7 Baltic Rim
ISO 8859-14 Latin alphabet No. 8 Celtic
ISO 8859-15 Latin alphabet No. 9 “Euro” variant of ISO 8859-1
ISO 8859-16 Latin alphabet No. 10 “South-Eastern European”
Ecma International has defined ECMA standards that have the same content as some
ISO 8859 standards, as indicated in the table. For example, ECMA-94 defines Latin
alphabets 1 through 4, equivalent to ISO 8859-1 through ISO 8859-4. The ECMA
standards are available via http://www.ecmainternational.org/publications/standards/
Standard.htm.
For a tabular summary of the coverage of European languages by the different ISO Latin
codes, refer to http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/8859.html. The languages are listed in each
standard, but the coverage is somewhat debatable. In particular, ISO Latin codes usu-
ally do not contain characters needed for correct punctuation of languages, even Eng-
lish.
Windows Latin 1 and Other Windows Codes
The ISO 8859 character codes, which have been defined by international standards,
have Microsoft-specific counterparts, which are here called “Windows codes.” The
main difference is that some code positions ...
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