8-bit character encoding for Maltese, Esperanto, and Turkish languages
ISO/IEC 8859-3| Company type | Character encoding standard |
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| Industry | Information technology |
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| Founded | 1988 |
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| Products | 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character set (Latin alphabet No. 3) |
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ISO/IEC 8859-3:1999, titled Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3, belongs to the ISO/IEC 8859 family of ASCII-derived standard character encodings, initially released in 1988. Commonly referred to as Latin-3 or South European, this encoding was developed to support the Turkish, Maltese, and Esperanto languages. Nevertheless, its role in Turkish language encoding was superseded by the arrival of ISO/IEC 8859-9. Although it gained traction among Esperanto speakers, its usage diminished as Unicode became more widely adopted.
The IANA designates ISO-8859-3 as the preferred charset name when paired with the C0 and C1 control codes specified in ISO/IEC 6429. In Microsoft's terminology, ISO-8859-3 is identified as code page 28593 (Windows-28593), while IBM labels it as code page 913 (CCSID 913).
Codepage layout
The distinctions between this and ISO-8859-1 are highlighted below by their corresponding Unicode code points.
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Template:Chset-cell1 to Template:Chset-cell1, covering standard Latin uppercase letters A–O
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Template:Chset-cell1 to Template:Chset-cell1, along with symbols such as brackets and underscore
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Template:Chset-cell1 to Template:Chset-cell1, encompassing typical Latin lowercase letters a–o
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Template:Chset-cell1 to Template:Chset-cell1, plus curly braces and tilde
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| (From code point 0xA0 onward, extended characters include accented letters tailored for Maltese, Esperanto, and Turkish languages, such as Ħ (U+0126), Ĵ (U+0134), Ş (U+015E), among others.)
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