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ISO 8859

ISO 8859 defines a series of 8-bit character sets that encode Latin characters used in Europe.
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8859-1 (aka Latin-1). Used in Western Europe and the Americas. It also defines the first 256 codes in Unicode. 28591
8859-2 Latin-written Slavic and Central European languages. 28592
8859-3 Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, and Turkish. 28593
8859-4 Used in Scandinavia and the Baltics. 28594
8859-5 Cyrillic 28595
8859-6 Arabic (without accents). 28596
8859-7 (modern) Greek 28597
8859-8 Hebrew (without accents) 28598
8859-15 modifies 8851-1 to support Estonian, Finnish, French and the euro-sign.
A superset of 8859-1 is Windows-1252. It includes characters from 8859-15. Windows-1252 is also referred to as Western European.

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