ISO/IEC 8859-2

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ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central[1] or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2, PC Latin 2) which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions.[2] Almost half the use of the encoding is for Polish, and it's the main legacy encoding for Polish, while virtually all use of it has been replaced by UTF-8 (on the web).

ISO/IEC 8859-2
MIME / IANAISO-8859-2
Alias(es)iso-ir-101, csISOLatin2, latin2, l2, IBM1111
Language(s)(see below)
StandardECMA-94:1986, ISO/IEC 8859
ClassificationExtended ASCII, ISO/IEC 8859
ExtendsUS-ASCII
Based onISO-8859-1
Other related encoding(s)Windows-1250, MacCroatian

ISO-8859-2 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Less than 0.04% of all web pages use ISO-8859-2 as of October 2022.[3][4] Microsoft has assigned code page 28592 a.k.a. Windows-28592 to ISO-8859-2 in Windows. IBM assigned code page 912 to ISO 8859-2,[5] until that code page was extended in 1999.[6] Code page 1111 is similar, but replaces byte B0 ° (degree sign) with U+02DA ˚ (ring above).

Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place).

Language coverage

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These code values can be used for the following languages:

  1. ^ The missing letter Å is officially a part of the Finnish alphabet, however it has no native use and its usage is limited to foreign names only.
  2. ^ In 2017, the Council for German Orthography officially added a capital , but is not actually required as SS can be used instead.
  3. ^ This character set unifies Ș and Ț (S,T with commas below) with Ş and Ţ (S, T with cedillas), as did virtually all other character sets including Microsoft's Windows-1250 and the first version of Unicode. Unicode subsequently disunified them however, this complicated processing of Romanian data; pre-existing data and input methods would still contain the older cedilla codepoints, complicating text searching.[citation needed]

Code page layout

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Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number underneath.

ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x  SP  ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
8x
9x
Ax NBSP Ą
0104
˘
02D8
Ł
0141
¤ Ľ
013D
Ś
015A
§ ¨ Š
0160
Ş
015E
Ť
0164
Ź
0179
SHY Ž
017D
Ż
017B
Bx ° ą
0105
˛
02DB
ł
0142
´ ľ
013E
ś
015B
ˇ
02C7
¸ š
0161
ş
015F
ť
0165
ź
017A
˝
02DD
ž
017E
ż
017C
Cx Ŕ
0154
Á Â Ă
0102
Ä Ĺ
0139
Ć
0106
Ç Č
010C
É Ę
0118
Ë Ě
011A
Í Î Ď
010E
Dx Đ
0110
Ń
0143
Ň
0147
Ó Ô Ő
0150
Ö × Ř
0158
Ů
016E
Ú Ű
0170
Ü Ý Ţ
0162
ß
Ex ŕ
0155
á â ă
0103
ä ĺ
013A
ć
0107
ç č
010D
é ę
0119
ë ě
011B
í î ď
010F
Fx đ
0111
ń
0144
ň
0148
ó ô ő
0151
ö ÷ ř
0159
ů
016F
ú ű
0171
ü ý ţ
0163
˙
02D9

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Microsoft Outlook Message Encodings". 10 January 2017.
  2. ^ "The Czech and Slovak Character Encoding Mess Explained". luki.sdf-eu.org. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  3. ^ "Usage Statistics and Market Share of ISO-8859-2 for Websites, October 2022". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  4. ^ "Historical trends in the usage statistics of character encodings for websites, February 2022".
  5. ^ "Icu-data/Charset/Data/XML/Ibm-912_P100-1995.XML at main · unicode-org/Icu-data". GitHub.
  6. ^ "Icu-data/Charset/Data/Ucm/Ibm-912_P100-1999.ucm at main · unicode-org/Icu-data". GitHub.
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