iso_8859-2.7: Charset pages unification, minor cleanups

- adjust references
- remove stray comments, streamline description
  (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
   and up-to-date description)
- cosmetics

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.TH ISO_8859-2 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.nh
.SH NAME
iso_8859-2 \- ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
ISO 8859-2, the "Latin
Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin
characters and is implemented by several program vendors.
.P
ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
Slovak, Slovenian, and Sorbian.
.P
Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.
ISO 8859-2 encodes the
Latin characters used in many Central and East European languages.
.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
.TS
@ -64,12 +55,10 @@ ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
.TE
.SS ISO 8859-2 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2),
which are printable and unlisted in the
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2, which
are printable and unlisted in the
.BR ascii (7)
manual page.
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.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-2.
.TS
l l l c lp-1.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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376 254 FE ţ LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
377 255 FF ˙ DOT ABOVE
.TE
.SH NOTES
ISO 8859-2 is also known as Latin-2.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ascii (7),
.BR charsets (7),
.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
.BR iso_8859-16 (7)
.I ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources
.UR http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si\:/linux\:/cee\:/iso8859-2.html
.UE .
.BR iso_8859-16 (7),
.BR utf-8 (7)