Code page 1111
| Company type | Standard |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Products | 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character set for Latin alphabet No. 2 |
ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, titled Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, belongs to the ISO/IEC 8859 collection of ASCII-derived standard character encodings, initially released in 1987. Often referred to as "Latin-2," this encoding is designed for Central and Eastern European languages that utilize the Latin script. It should be noted that it is markedly distinct from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2), which is also known as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak areas. Approximately fifty percent of its application is dedicated to Polish, where it continues to serve as a primary legacy encoding, although UTF-8 has become the dominant encoding for web content.
The IANA designates ISO-8859-2 as the preferred charset name when paired with C0 and C1 control codes defined by ISO/IEC 6429. As of October 2022, ISO-8859-2 accounts for under 0.04% of website encodings globally. Microsoft has assigned it code page 28592 (Windows-28592), while IBM referred to it as code page 912 until its update in 1999. A closely related variant, code page 1111, exists where the degree symbol is replaced by a ring above.
Windows-1250 shares many similarities with ISO-8859-2, encompassing all its printable characters along with additional ones; however, unlike Windows-1252, which maintains the printable character positions from ISO-8859-1, Windows-1250 rearranges some characters.
Language coverage
The code points defined by this standard provide support for the following languages:
Code page layout
The distinctions from ISO-8859-1 are indicated below by their corresponding Unicode code points.
| Template:Chset-left1 | Template:Chset-cell1 (applies to control codes) | ||
| Template:Chset-left1 | Template:Chset-ctrl1 | ... (standard ASCII characters ranging from 0x21 to 0x7E) | |
| Template:Chset-left1 | Template:Chset-ctrl1 | Template:Chset-cell1 | ... (additional accented letters and symbols specific to Latin-2) |
(The complete table incorporates accented characters crucial for Central and Eastern European languages, facilitating business communication within these regions.)
See also
External links
- ISO/IEC 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