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.TH ISO_8859-1 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
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and hexadecimal
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
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character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
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Especially important is
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ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
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implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
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replacement.
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.P
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ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
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Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
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German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
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Spanish, and Swedish.
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.P
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Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
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of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
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ISO 8859-1 encodes the
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characters used in many West European languages.
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.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
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The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
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.TS
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ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
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.TE
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.SS ISO 8859-1 characters
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The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
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which are printable and unlisted in the
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The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1, which
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are printable and unlisted in the
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.BR ascii (7)
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manual page.
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.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
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.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
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.TS
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l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
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l l l c lp-1.
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Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
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376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
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377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
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.TE
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.IP [1] 4
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See
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.BR groff_char (7)
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(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
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paragraph 6.3.3)
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or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
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.SH NOTES
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ISO 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR ascii (7),
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.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
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.BR charsets (7),
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.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
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.BR utf-8 (7)
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