iso_8859-1.7: 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
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.TH ISO_8859-1 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 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).
Especially important is
ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
replacement.
.P
ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
Spanish, and Swedish.
.P
Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
ISO 8859-1 encodes the
characters used in many West European languages.
.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
.TS
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ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
.TE
.SS ISO 8859-1 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
which are printable and unlisted in the
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1, which
are printable and unlisted in the
.BR ascii (7)
manual page.
.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
.TS
l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
l l l c lp-1.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
_
240 160 A0   NO-BREAK SPACE
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376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
.TE
.IP [1] 4
See
.BR groff_char (7)
(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
paragraph 6.3.3)
or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
.SH NOTES
ISO 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ascii (7),
.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
.BR charsets (7),
.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
.BR utf-8 (7)