ISO 8859 Character Sets
ISO character sets
Language character sets
ISO-8859-1
Latin-1
ASCII plus most Western European languages.
e.g., Albanian, Finnish, Spanish and Swedish.
Apparently omits certain Dutch, French & German characters
ISO-8859-2
Latin-2
ASCII plus most Central European languages.
e.g., Czech, German, Polish & Serbian
ISO-8859-3
Latin-3
ASCII plus support for German, Maltese and Galician
ISO-8859-4
Latin-4
ASCII plus support for most Baltic languages
e.g., Latvian and Lappish.
Replaced by ISO-Latin-6
ISO-8859-5
–
ASCII plus Cyrillic characters for Slavic languages
e.g., Bulgarian, Macedonian & Russian
ISO-8859-6
–
ASCII plus Arabic characters
ISO-8859-7
–
ASCII plus Greek characters
ISO-8859-8
–
ASCII plus Hebrew characters
ISO-8859-9
Latin-5
As Latin-1 but favours Turkish over Icelandic
ISO-8859-10
Latin-6
ASCII plus most Nordic languages
e.g., Latvian, Lithuanian, Inuit & non-Skolt Sami
ISO-8859-11
–
ASCII plus Thai support
ISO-8859-12
Latin-7
ASCII plus Celtic support
ISO-8859-13
Latin-8
ASCII plus the Baltic Rim characters
ISO-8859-14
Latin-9
ASCII plus Sami support (Finnish)
ISO-8859-15
Latin-10
ISO-Latin-1 variant with support for the Euro, plus extra accented Finnish & French characters
