ISO 8859

<standard, character> ("ISO Latin 1") One of ISO's 8 bit single-byte coded graphic character sets for European languages.

Part 1 (full name: "ISO 8859-1:1987 Information processing -- 8 bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1") is a common extension of, and replacement for, ASCII.

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ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN" defines some extra(?) characters used in SGML.

(03 May 1995)