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.
Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
ISO 8859-1 | West European languages (Latin-1) |
ISO 8859-2 | Central and East European languages (Latin-2) |
ISO 8859-3 | Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3) |
ISO 8859-4 | Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) |
ISO 8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic |
ISO 8859-6 | Latin/Arabic |
ISO 8859-7 | Latin/Greek |
ISO 8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew |
ISO 8859-9 | Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) |
ISO 8859-10 | Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) |
ISO 8859-11 | Latin/Thai |
ISO 8859-13 | Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) |
ISO 8859-14 | Celtic (Latin-8) |
ISO 8859-15 | West European languages (Latin-9) |
ISO 8859-16 | Romanian (Latin-10) |
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), which are printable and unlisted in the ASCII table.
Dec Hex Char Description --------------------------------------------------------------- 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE 161 A1 ¡ INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK 162 A2 ¢ CENT SIGN 163 A3 £ POUND SIGN 164 A4 € CURRENCY SIGN 165 A5 ¥ YEN SIGN 166 A6 Š BROKEN BAR 167 A7 § SECTION SIGN 168 A8 š DIAERESIS 169 A9 © COPYRIGHT SIGN 170 AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR 171 AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 172 AC ¬ NOT SIGN 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN 174 AE ® REGISTERED SIGN 175 AF ¯ MACRON 176 B0 ° DEGREE SIGN 177 B1 ± PLUS-MINUS SIGN 178 B2 ² SUPERSCRIPT TWO 179 B3 ³ SUPERSCRIPT THREE 180 B4 Ž ACUTE ACCENT 181 B5 µ MICRO SIGN 182 B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN 183 B7 · MIDDLE DOT 184 B8 ž CEDILLA 185 B9 ¹ SUPERSCRIPT ONE 186 BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR 187 BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 188 BC Œ VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER 189 BD œ VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF 190 BE Ÿ VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS 191 BF ¿ INVERTED QUESTION MARK 192 C0 À LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 193 C1 Á LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE 194 C2  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX 195 C3 à LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE 196 C4 Ä LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 197 C5 Å LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 198 C6 Æ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE 199 C7 Ç LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA 200 C8 È LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE 201 C9 É LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE 202 CA Ê LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX 203 CB Ë LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS 204 CC Ì LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 205 CD Í LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 206 CE Î LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 207 CF Ï LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 208 D0 Ð LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH 209 D1 Ñ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE 210 D2 Ò LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE 211 D3 Ó LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE 212 D4 Ô LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX 213 D5 Õ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE 214 D6 Ö LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS 215 D7 × MULTIPLICATION SIGN 216 D8 Ø LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE 217 D9 Ù LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE 218 DA Ú LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE 219 DB Û LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX 220 DC Ü LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS 221 DD Ý LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE 222 DE Þ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN 223 DF ß LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S 224 E0 à LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 225 E1 á LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE 226 E2 â LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX 227 E3 ã LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE 228 E4 ä LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 229 E5 å LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 230 E6 æ LATIN SMALL LETTER AE 231 E7 ç LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA 232 E8 è LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE 233 E9 é LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE 234 EA ê LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX 235 EB ë LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS 236 EC ì LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 237 ED í LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 238 EE î LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 239 EF ï LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 240 F0 ð LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH 241 F1 ñ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE 242 F2 ò LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE 243 F3 ó LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE 244 F4 ô LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX 245 F5 õ LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE 246 F6 ö LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS 247 F7 ÷ DIVISION SIGN 248 F8 ø LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE 249 F9 ù LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE 250 FA ú LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE 251 FB û LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX 252 FC ü LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS 253 FD ý LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
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