iso_8859-15.7: 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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.\" %%%LICENSE_END
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.TH ISO_8859-15 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.nh
.SH NAME
iso_8859-15 \- ISO 8859-15 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.
However, it lacks the EURO symbol and does not fully
cover Finnish and French.
ISO 8859-15 is a modification of ISO 8859-1
that covers these needs.
.P
ISO 8859-15 supports the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton,
Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French,
Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic,
Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic,
Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish.
ISO 8859-15 encodes the
characters used in many West European languages and adds the Euro sign.
.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 8859-15 characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9),
which are printable and unlisted in the
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15, 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 8859-15.
.TS
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Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
.TE
.SH NOTES
ISO 8859-15 is also known as Latin-9 (or sometimes as Latin-0).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ascii (7),
.BR iso_8859-1 (7)
.BR charsets (7),
.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
.BR utf-8 (7)