iso_8859-16(7) - Linux man page

Name

iso_8859-16 - ISO 8859-16 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

Description

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-16, the "Latin Alphabet No. 10" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin characters and is not implemented yet by any program vendors.

ISO 8859-16 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian and Serbian.

Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one transliterations to Latin 10: Macedonian and Serbian.

ISO 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO 8859-16 characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10), which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-16.

See Also

ascii(7), iso_8859-1(7), iso_8859-15(7), iso_8859-2(7)

ISO 8859-16 (Latin 10) Resources