ISO/IEC 8859-2

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ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. 2, consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script, each encoded as a single 8-bit code value.

ISO_8859-2:1987, more commonly known by its preferred mime name of ISO-8859-2 (note extra hyphen), is the IANA charset name for this standard used together with the control codes from ISO/IEC 6429 for the C0 (0x00-0x1F) and C1 (0x80-0x9F) parts. Escape sequences (from ISO/IEC 6429 or ISO/IEC 2022) are not to be interpreted. This character set also has the aliases ISO_8859-2, latin2, l2 and csISOLatin2.

This encoding shares a lot of assignments with windows-1250 but is not a strict subset of it (unlike the case with windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1).

These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following European languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian (also, see next paragraph), Serbian (in Latin transcription), Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. Furthermore it is suitable to represent some western European languages like Finnish (with the exception of å used in Swedish and Finnish) or German. When used alone, these latter languages are nominally using ISO 8859-1 encoding, but the needed codepoints are shared with ISO 8859-2, which is an important aspect for multi-lingual documents.

It may be argued that ISO 8859-2 is not really suitable for Romanian because of lack of letters s and t with commas below, containing s and t with cedillas instead. These letters were unified in the first versions of the Unicode standard, meaning that the appearance with cedilla or with comma was treated as a glyph choice rather than as separate characters; fonts intended for use with Romanian should, therefore, have characters with comma below at those code points.

[edit] Code page layout

In the following table characters are shown together with their corresponding Unicode code points. Note that code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-2. Code 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NON-BREAKING SPACE. Code AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2)
	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9	—A	—B	—C	—D	—E	—F
0−	NUL 0000 0	SOH 0001 1	STX 0002 2	ETX 0003 3	EOT 0004 4	ENQ 0005 5	ACK 0006 6	BEL 0007 7	BS 0008 8	HT 0009 9	LF 000A 10	VT 000B 11	FF 000C 12	CR 000D 13	SO 000E 14	SI 000F 15
1−	DLE 0010 16	DC1 0011 17	DC2 0012 18	DC3 0013 19	DC4 0014 20	NAK 0015 21	SYN 0016 22	ETB 0017 23	CAN 0018 24	EM 0019 25	SUB 001A 26	ESC 001B 27	FS 001C 28	GS 001D 29	RS 001E 30	US 001F 31
2−	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3−	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4−	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5−	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6−	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7−	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126	DEL 007F 127
8−	PAD 0080 128	HOP 0081 129	BPH 0082 130	NBH 0083 131	IND 0084 132	NEL 0085 133	SSA 0086 134	ESA 0087 135	HTS 0088 136	HTJ 0089 137	VTS 008A 138	PLD 008B 139	PLU 008C 140	RI 008D 141	SS2 008E 142	SS3 008F 143
9−	DCS 0090 144	PU1 0091 145	PU2 0092 146	STS 0093 147	CCH 0094 148	MW 0095 149	SPA 0096 150	EPA 0097 151	SOS 0098 152	SGCI 0099 153	SCI 009A 154	CSI 009B 155	ST 009C 156	OSC 009D 157	PM 009E 158	APC 009F 159
A−	NBSP 00A0 160	Ą 0104 161	˘ 02D8 162	Ł 0141 163	¤ 00A4 164	Ľ 013D 165	Ś 015A 166	§ 00A7 167	¨ 00A8 168	Š 0160 169	Ş 015E 170	Ť 0164 171	Ź 0179 172	SHY 00AD 173	Ž 017D 174	Ż 017B 175
B−	° 00B0 176	ą 0105 177	˛ 02DB 178	ł 0142 179	´ 00B4 180	ľ 013E 181	ś 015B 182	ˇ 02C7 183	¸ 00B8 184	š 0161 185	ş 015F 186	ť 0165 187	ź 017A 188	˝ 02DD 189	ž 017E 190	ż 017C 191
C−	Ŕ 0154 192	Á 00C1 193	Â 00C2 194	Ă 0102 195	Ä 00C4 196	Ĺ 0139 197	Ć 0106 198	Ç 00C7 199	Č 010C 200	É 00C9 201	Ę 0118 202	Ë 00CB 203	Ě 011A 204	Í 00CD 205	Î 00CE 206	Ď 010E 207
D−	Đ 0110 208	Ń 0143 209	Ň 0147 210	Ó 00D3 211	Ô 00D4 212	Ő 0150 213	Ö 00D6 214	× 00D7 215	Ř 0158 216	Ů 016E 217	Ú 00DA 218	Ű 0170 219	Ü 00DC 220	Ý 00DD 221	Ţ 0162 222	ß 00DF 223
E−	ŕ 0155 224	á 00E1 225	â 00E2 226	ă 0103 227	ä 00E4 228	ĺ 013A 229	ć 0107 230	ç 00E7 231	č 010D 232	é 00E9 233	ę 0119 234	ë 00EB 235	ě 011B 236	í 00ED 237	î 00EE 238	ď 010F 239
F−	đ 0111 240	ń 0144 241	ň 0148 242	ó 00F3 243	ô 00F4 244	ő 0151 245	ö 00F6 246	÷ 00F7 247	ř 0159 248	ů 016F 249	ú 00FA 250	ű 0171 251	ü 00FC 252	ý 00FD 253	ţ 0163 254	˙ 02D9 255

[edit] External links

• ISO 8859-2:1999
• Standard ECMA-94: 8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)
• ISO-IR 101 Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.2 (February 1, 1986)
• ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources