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ISO/IEC 8859-15
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The identifier ISO 8859-15 was proposed for the <a href="/facts/Sami_languages/A5pnbf3y">Sami languages</a> in 1996, which was eventually rejected, but was passed as <a href="/facts/ISO-IR_197/uEmGKSmG">ISO-IR 197</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>ISO 8859-16 was proposed as a similar encoding to today's ISO 8859-15, to replace 11 unused or rarely used <a href="/facts/ISO_8859-1/xPNVSEE6">ISO 8859-1</a> characters with the missing French Œ œ (at the same spot as same place as <a href="/facts/DEC-MCS/u0vgVWdU">DEC-MCS</a> and <a href="/facts/Lotus_International_Character_Set/bpDWWyHA">Lotus International Character Set</a>) and Ÿ (which was not at the same place as these sets, as Ý was in that spot for Icelandic), Dutch IJ ij, and Turkish Ğ ğ İ ı Ş ş. The euro sign did not exist at the time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>The draft was as follows: </p> Proposed (<i>but not adopted</i>) ISO/IEC 8859-15<table><tbody><tr><td></td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>Ax</td><td><a href="/facts/Non-breaking_space/lBPo5IS6">NBSP</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Inverted_question_and_exclamation_marks/QA3m2elc">¡</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cent_(currency)/Bm1EtB76">¢</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Pound_sign/1w2ueXso">£</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Currency_(typography)/TVd6UAcl">¤</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C4%25B2/X8GpkXDW">IJ</a>0132</td><td><a href="/facts/Vertical_bar/Yq77nJ6f">¦</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Section_sign/fdPt1SH6">§</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C4%25B2/X8GpkXDW">ij</a>0133</td><td><a href="/facts/Copyright_symbol/vKDWhSGv">©</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ordinal_indicator/xYjaI72Q">ª</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Guillemet/cfjrC79a">«</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Negation/q5AQBvBj">¬</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Soft_hyphen/NtwVakne">SHY</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Registered_trademark_symbol/lLGeMyUG">®</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Macron_(diacritic)/41AF4mKp">¯</a></td></tr><tr><td>Bx</td><td><a href="/facts/Degree_symbol/ckUXSh21">°</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Plus-minus_sign/cAP8AgPH">±</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C4%259E/0wjXcPDT">Ğ</a>011E</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C4%259E/0wjXcPDT">ğ</a>011F</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C4%25B0/2w7mqI7e">İ</a>0130</td><td><a href="/facts/Micro_sign/VXlL1EhM">µ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Pilcrow/r7Rvn9r7">¶</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Interpunct/FqdEx1gT">·</a></td><td><a href="/facts/I/2w7mqI7e">ı</a>0131</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%259E/1DcekgEL">Ş</a>015E</td><td><a href="/facts/Ordinal_indicator/xYjaI72Q">º</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Guillemet/cfjrC79a">»</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%259E/1DcekgEL">ş</a>015F</td><td><a href="/facts/Half/wKqmu9HK">½</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25B8/anP6EhKq">Ÿ</a>0178</td><td><a href="/facts/Inverted_question_mark/QA3m2elc">¿</a></td></tr><tr><td>Cx</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2580/2R3BU1nc">À</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2581/2R3BU1nc">Á</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2582/2R3BU1nc">Â</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2583/2R3BU1nc">Ã</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2584/2R3BU1nc">Ä</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2585/2R3BU1nc">Å</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2586/Uqctr81G">Æ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2587/2e7jmUaG">Ç</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2588/0G2cAFzu">È</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2589/0G2cAFzu">É</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258A/0G2cAFzu">Ê</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258B/0G2cAFzu">Ë</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258C/2w7mqI7e">Ì</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258D/2w7mqI7e">Í</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258E/2w7mqI7e">Î</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258F/2w7mqI7e">Ï</a></td></tr><tr><td>Dx</td><td><a href="/facts/Eth/nzuw2l8P">Ð</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2591/0CEs8314">Ñ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2592/41AF4mKp">Ò</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2593/41AF4mKp">Ó</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2594/41AF4mKp">Ô</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2595/41AF4mKp">Õ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2596/41AF4mKp">Ö</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%2592/kDUta34M">Œ</a>0152</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2598/41AF4mKp">Ø</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2599/41AF4mKp">Ù</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259A/41AF4mKp">Ú</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259B/41AF4mKp">Û</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259C/41AF4mKp">Ü</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259D/anP6EhKq">Ý</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Thorn_(letter)/If14ydeQ">Þ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259F/mJ1GxYKu">ß</a></td></tr><tr><td>Ex</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2580/2R3BU1nc">à</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2581/2R3BU1nc">á</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2582/2R3BU1nc">â</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2583/2R3BU1nc">ã</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2584/2R3BU1nc">ä</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2585/2R3BU1nc">å</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2586/Uqctr81G">æ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2587/2e7jmUaG">ç</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2588/0G2cAFzu">è</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2589/0G2cAFzu">é</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258A/0G2cAFzu">ê</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258B/0G2cAFzu">ë</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258C/2w7mqI7e">ì</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258D/2w7mqI7e">í</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258E/2w7mqI7e">î</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258F/2w7mqI7e">ï</a></td></tr><tr><td>Fx</td><td><a href="/facts/Eth/nzuw2l8P">ð</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2591/0CEs8314">ñ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2592/41AF4mKp">ò</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2593/41AF4mKp">ó</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2594/41AF4mKp">ô</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2595/41AF4mKp">õ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2596/41AF4mKp">ö</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%2592/kDUta34M">œ</a>0153</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2598/41AF4mKp">ø</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2599/41AF4mKp">ù</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259A/41AF4mKp">ú</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259B/41AF4mKp">û</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259C/41AF4mKp">ü</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259D/anP6EhKq">ý</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Thorn_(letter)/If14ydeQ">þ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25B8/anP6EhKq">ÿ</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The name was later changed to ISO-8859-0 and was restructured by 1997. The Turkish characters were removed because it was considered that it would potentially do more harm to Turkish then-current practice while UCS (Unicode) implementation was not that far away, and the Dutch <i>IJ</i> ligature was removed as the existing digraph <i>ij</i> was found to be adequate. It was also considered to add the <a href="/facts/Welsh_language/4Pz8r6yk">Welsh</a> Ŵ ŵ and Ŷ ŷ, but that was postponed pending further investigation. 4 unused or rarely used <a href="/facts/ISO_8859-1/xPNVSEE6">ISO 8859-1</a> characters (¤, ¨, ´, and ¸) were replaced with €, Ÿ, Œ, and œ respectively.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> € became necessary when the <a href="/facts/Euro/NWG2nlCx">euro</a> was introduced. Ÿ is needed so that French text can be converted from lower-case to all-caps and back again without loss, and Œ and œ are French ligatures. Ironically, the last three had already been present in <a href="/facts/DEC_(company)/ztxs6keA">DEC</a>'s <a href="/facts/Multinational_Character_Set/u0vgVWdU">Multinational Character Set</a> (MCS) in 1983, a character set from which <a href="/facts/ECMA-94/KFAUkAQ9">ECMA-94</a> (1985) and ISO-8859-1 (1987) were derived. Since their original codepoints were now occupied by other characters, less logical codepoints had to be chosen for their reintroduction. </p><p>The same proposal also recommended replacing 6 more characters (¢, ¦, ±, ¼, ½, ¾) with "some other characters to cover a maximum of languages". The reasons for choosing these characters was stated in the proposal.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> For the euro sign, some wanted to replace the plus–minus sign instead of the currency sign. The currency sign is used in some applications as a <a href="/facts/Delimiter-separated_values/NyHMsLTN">field separator</a> and in some others to indicate subtotal. There was strong opposition to this. One person said "The proposed «+-» is not an adequate fall-back, as this sequence, though rarely used, has already a fixed mathematical meaning, quite different from «±»; and, even if a reader would deduce the intended meaning, «±», from the context, «+-» in lieu of «±» will hurt a physicist's æsthetic feelings at least as much as «oe» in lieu of an o-e ligature a Francophone's."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> In the end, ± was kept, and ¤ was removed (as originally planned). </p><p>Circa 1997/1998 (when <a href="/facts/Windows-1252/eyM337y0">Windows-1252</a> was updated) four characters were selected: Š, š, Ž, and ž, which are used in <a href="/facts/Finnish_language/lBuEIgs0">Finnish</a> and <a href="/facts/Estonian_language/ywCJos4e">Estonian</a> for the <a href="/facts/Transliteration/1eemsW6o">transliteration</a> of <a href="/facts/Russian_language/ETXrTgHV">Russian</a> loanwords and names. The proposal was renamed to ISO 8859-15 at the same time. In the end the characters ¦, ¼, ½, and ¾ were removed, while ¢ was kept because it was more common than the other four. </p><p>There were attempts to make ISO 8859-15 the default character set for 8-bit communication, but it was never able to supplant the popular ISO 8859-1. It did see some use as the default character set for the text console and terminal programs under Linux when the euro sign was needed, but the use of full <a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Unicode</a> was not practical, but this has since been replaced with <a href="/facts/UTF-8/xlaVHSyf">UTF-8</a>. </p> <h2 id="coverage">Coverage</h2> <p>ISO 8859-15 encodes what it refers to as "<a href="/facts/Latin_alphabet/pqWVHpBz">Latin alphabet</a> no. 9". This character set is used throughout the <a href="/facts/Americas/hEuUTL4K">Americas</a>, <a href="/facts/Western_Europe/YmWlV59w">Western Europe</a>, <a href="/facts/Oceania/vzTEvsfV">Oceania</a>, and much of <a href="/facts/Africa/XkqQUP9s">Africa</a>. It is also commonly used in most standard romanizations of East-Asian languages. </p><p>Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following languages: </p> <table><tbody><tr><td><ul><li><a href="/facts/Afrikaans_language/jYqEPHmA">Afrikaans</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Albanian_language/6CyC8GPJ">Albanian</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Breton_language/e0Rpgyvf">Breton</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Catalan_language/W2uTbK8Q">Catalan</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Danish_language/sTcGXTMJ">Danish</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Dutch_language/yIB5lbsx">Dutch</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Estonian_language/ywCJos4e">Estonian</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Faroese_language/1nf145FG">Faroese</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Finnish_language/lBuEIgs0">Finnish</a></li><li><a href="/facts/French_language/qe1DnaQh">French</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Galician_language/bGIhIvMX">Galician</a></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><a href="/facts/German_language/oWaQIDA8">German</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Icelandic_language/4GmzhaoT">Icelandic</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Irish_language/Kw97s2l4">Irish</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Italian_language/YXsmvlQG">Italian</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Luxembourgish_language/HsVzn2YA">Luxembourgish</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><a href="/facts/Malay_language/2T6pPtgv">Malay</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Norwegian_language/TGEyeerM">Norwegian</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Occitan_language/w0etTc3w">Occitan</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Portuguese_language/vr3Fwzw3">Portuguese</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a></li><li><a href="/facts/Romansh_language/KrxKLUlk">Rhaeto-Romanic</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Rotokas_alphabet/8jvKG1na">Rotokas</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Scottish_Gaelic/KMI4MmzJ">Scottish Gaelic</a></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><a href="/facts/Swedish_language/1DkSIXkH">Swedish</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Tagalog_language/G8UARRIl">Tagalog</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Walloon_language/Tdp6gx6D">Walloon</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Scots_language/0qPof8oC">Scots</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Spanish_language/95BgYNfv">Spanish</a></li><li><a href="/facts/Swahili_language/sLzhutLC">Swahili</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Notes </p> <h3>Coverage of punctuation signs and apostrophes</h3> <p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/Latin-script_alphabet/0JFUQXCX">Latin-script alphabet</a></p> <p>For some languages listed above, the correct typographical <a href="/facts/Quotation_mark/hIdA4WEo">quotation marks</a> are missing, since only «, », ", and ' are included. </p><p>Also, this encoding does not provide the correct character for the apostrophe, and oriented single high quotation marks, although some texts use the spacing grave accent and spacing acute accent, which are both part of ISO 8859-1, instead of the 6-shaped/9-shaped quotations marks or apostrophes (and this works reliably with some font styles, where all these characters are displayed as slanted wedge glyphs). </p> <h2 id="codepage-layout">Codepage layout</h2> <p>Differences from <a href="/facts/ISO-8859-1/xPNVSEE6">ISO-8859-1</a> have the Unicode code point shown underneath the character. </p> ISO/IEC 8859-15<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>0x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2x</td><td> <a href="/facts/Space_character/Q5xRIaSz">SP</a> </td><td><a href="/facts/Exclamation_mark/joGCCBau">!</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Quotation_mark/hIdA4WEo">"</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Number_sign/bHYCsWs1">#</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Dollar_sign/4CroUuPn">$</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Percent_sign/pLdHNKar">%</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ampersand/emmXUXuB">&</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Apostrophe/Te0sg9km">'</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Parenthesis/yzGM9J8A">(</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Parenthesis/yzGM9J8A">)</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Asterisk/qwmtPW5V">*</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Plus_sign/6RJD4Xt9">+</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Comma_(punctuation)/mcW9dcGT">,</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hyphen-minus/TnWuz7hd">-</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Full_stop/w0Ylafwn">.</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Slash_(punctuation)/fuaRyKzc">/</a></td></tr><tr><td>3x</td><td><a href="/facts/0/4NBRtKHc">0</a></td><td><a href="/facts/1/d6SoCnze">1</a></td><td><a href="/facts/2/d6SoCnze">2</a></td><td><a href="/facts/3/11oMY3Hn">3</a></td><td><a href="/facts/4/d6SoCnze">4</a></td><td><a href="/facts/5/d6SoCnze">5</a></td><td><a href="/facts/6/d6SoCnze">6</a></td><td><a href="/facts/7/4GV2hz09">7</a></td><td><a href="/facts/8/bH7jHJDg">8</a></td><td><a href="/facts/9/d6SoCnze">9</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Colon_(punctuation)/se9fjJa4">:</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Semicolon/VY8VsSPC">;</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Less-than_sign/cho3wlR5"><</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Equals_sign/AweYSg9h">=</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Greater-than_sign/J58SE7bT">></a></td><td><a href="/facts/Question_mark/0D8z1rxr">?</a></td></tr><tr><td>4x</td><td><a href="/facts/%40/6Q03Vo2z">@</a></td><td><a href="/facts/A/2R3BU1nc">A</a></td><td><a href="/facts/B/Bf1NUwpT">B</a></td><td><a href="/facts/C/2e7jmUaG">C</a></td><td><a href="/facts/D/A6hNvmCp">D</a></td><td><a href="/facts/E/0G2cAFzu">E</a></td><td><a href="/facts/F/2Qhv29hR">F</a></td><td><a href="/facts/G/0wjXcPDT">G</a></td><td><a href="/facts/H/2ReerlNA">H</a></td><td><a href="/facts/I/2w7mqI7e">I</a></td><td><a href="/facts/J/I3pUoxSq">J</a></td><td><a href="/facts/K/68UJI9sK">K</a></td><td><a href="/facts/L/0Ge4MIc9">L</a></td><td><a href="/facts/M/24C1RjmQ">M</a></td><td><a href="/facts/N/0CEs8314">N</a></td><td><a href="/facts/O/41AF4mKp">O</a></td></tr><tr><td>5x</td><td><a href="/facts/P/41AF4mKp">P</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Q/3x6B7oLx">Q</a></td><td><a href="/facts/R/2w7mqI7e">R</a></td><td><a href="/facts/S/1DcekgEL">S</a></td><td><a href="/facts/T/1GaDe2Vy">T</a></td><td><a href="/facts/U/41AF4mKp">U</a></td><td><a href="/facts/V/41AF4mKp">V</a></td><td><a href="/facts/W/1qRkvAb9">W</a></td><td><a href="/facts/X/1qRkvAb9">X</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Y/anP6EhKq">Y</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Z/Bf1NUwpT">Z</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Square_brackets/yzGM9J8A">[</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Backslash/SoV79KPp">\</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Square_brackets/yzGM9J8A">]</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Caret/LRV5MF7s">^</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Underscore/KJsRo3tA">_</a></td></tr><tr><td>6x</td><td><a href="/facts/%2560/pVo48UeD">`</a></td><td><a href="/facts/A/2R3BU1nc">a</a></td><td><a href="/facts/B/Bf1NUwpT">b</a></td><td><a href="/facts/C/2e7jmUaG">c</a></td><td><a href="/facts/D/A6hNvmCp">d</a></td><td><a href="/facts/E/0G2cAFzu">e</a></td><td><a href="/facts/F/2Qhv29hR">f</a></td><td><a href="/facts/G/0wjXcPDT">g</a></td><td><a href="/facts/H/2ReerlNA">h</a></td><td><a href="/facts/I/2w7mqI7e">i</a></td><td><a href="/facts/J/I3pUoxSq">j</a></td><td><a href="/facts/K/68UJI9sK">k</a></td><td><a href="/facts/L/0Ge4MIc9">l</a></td><td><a href="/facts/M/24C1RjmQ">m</a></td><td><a href="/facts/N/0CEs8314">n</a></td><td><a href="/facts/O/41AF4mKp">o</a></td></tr><tr><td>7x</td><td><a href="/facts/P/41AF4mKp">p</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Q/3x6B7oLx">q</a></td><td><a href="/facts/R/2w7mqI7e">r</a></td><td><a href="/facts/S/1DcekgEL">s</a></td><td><a href="/facts/T/1GaDe2Vy">t</a></td><td><a href="/facts/U/41AF4mKp">u</a></td><td><a href="/facts/V/41AF4mKp">v</a></td><td><a href="/facts/W/1qRkvAb9">w</a></td><td><a href="/facts/X/1qRkvAb9">x</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Y/anP6EhKq">y</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Z/Bf1NUwpT">z</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Curly_brackets/yzGM9J8A">{</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Vertical_bar/Yq77nJ6f">|</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Curly_brackets/yzGM9J8A">}</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tilde/wQTx6ytR">~</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>8x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>9x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ax</td><td><a href="/facts/Non-breaking_space/lBPo5IS6">NBSP</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Inverted_exclamation_mark/QA3m2elc">¡</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cent_(currency)/Bm1EtB76">¢</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Pound_sign/1w2ueXso">£</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Euro_sign/boK32Hs4">€</a>20AC</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C2%25A5/lNpDWqh9">¥</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25A0/1DcekgEL">Š</a>0160</td><td><a href="/facts/Section_sign/fdPt1SH6">§</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25A0/1DcekgEL">š</a>0161</td><td><a href="/facts/Copyright_symbol/vKDWhSGv">©</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ordinal_indicator/xYjaI72Q">ª</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Guillemet/cfjrC79a">«</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Negation/q5AQBvBj">¬</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Soft_hyphen/NtwVakne">SHY</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Registered_trademark_symbol/lLGeMyUG">®</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Macron_(diacritic)/41AF4mKp">¯</a></td></tr><tr><td>Bx</td><td><a href="/facts/Degree_symbol/ckUXSh21">°</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Plus%25E2%2580%2593minus_sign/cAP8AgPH">±</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Superscript/6tExBnkw">²</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Superscript/6tExBnkw">³</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25BD/Bf1NUwpT">Ž</a>017D</td><td><a href="/facts/Micro_sign/VXlL1EhM">µ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Pilcrow/r7Rvn9r7">¶</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Interpunct/FqdEx1gT">·</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25BD/Bf1NUwpT">ž</a>017E</td><td><a href="/facts/Superscript/6tExBnkw">¹</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ordinal_indicator/xYjaI72Q">º</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Guillemet/cfjrC79a">»</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%2592/kDUta34M">Œ</a>0152</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%2592/kDUta34M">œ</a>0153</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25B8/anP6EhKq">Ÿ</a>0178</td><td><a href="/facts/Inverted_question_mark/QA3m2elc">¿</a></td></tr><tr><td>Cx</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2580/2R3BU1nc">À</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2581/2R3BU1nc">Á</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2582/2R3BU1nc">Â</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2583/2R3BU1nc">Ã</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2584/2R3BU1nc">Ä</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2585/2R3BU1nc">Å</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2586/Uqctr81G">Æ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2587/2e7jmUaG">Ç</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2588/0G2cAFzu">È</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2589/0G2cAFzu">É</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258A/0G2cAFzu">Ê</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258B/0G2cAFzu">Ë</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258C/2w7mqI7e">Ì</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258D/2w7mqI7e">Í</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258E/2w7mqI7e">Î</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258F/2w7mqI7e">Ï</a></td></tr><tr><td>Dx</td><td><a href="/facts/Eth/nzuw2l8P">Ð</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2591/0CEs8314">Ñ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2592/41AF4mKp">Ò</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2593/41AF4mKp">Ó</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2594/41AF4mKp">Ô</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2595/41AF4mKp">Õ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2596/41AF4mKp">Ö</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Multiplication_sign/XtsHgIbs">×</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2598/41AF4mKp">Ø</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2599/41AF4mKp">Ù</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259A/41AF4mKp">Ú</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259B/41AF4mKp">Û</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259C/41AF4mKp">Ü</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259D/anP6EhKq">Ý</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Thorn_(letter)/If14ydeQ">Þ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259F/mJ1GxYKu">ß</a></td></tr><tr><td>Ex</td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2580/2R3BU1nc">à</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2581/2R3BU1nc">á</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2582/2R3BU1nc">â</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2583/2R3BU1nc">ã</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2584/2R3BU1nc">ä</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2585/2R3BU1nc">å</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2586/Uqctr81G">æ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2587/2e7jmUaG">ç</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2588/0G2cAFzu">è</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2589/0G2cAFzu">é</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258A/0G2cAFzu">ê</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258B/0G2cAFzu">ë</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258C/2w7mqI7e">ì</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258D/2w7mqI7e">í</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258E/2w7mqI7e">î</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%258F/2w7mqI7e">ï</a></td></tr><tr><td>Fx</td><td><a href="/facts/Eth/nzuw2l8P">ð</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2591/0CEs8314">ñ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2592/41AF4mKp">ò</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2593/41AF4mKp">ó</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2594/41AF4mKp">ô</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2595/41AF4mKp">õ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2596/41AF4mKp">ö</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Division_sign/E83FFxSe">÷</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2598/41AF4mKp">ø</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%2599/41AF4mKp">ù</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259A/41AF4mKp">ú</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259B/41AF4mKp">û</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259C/41AF4mKp">ü</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C3%259D/anP6EhKq">ý</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Thorn_(letter)/If14ydeQ">þ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25B8/anP6EhKq">ÿ</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="aliases">Aliases</h2> <p>ISO 8859-15 also has the following, vendor-specific aliases: </p> <ul><li>WE8ISO8859P15 (<a href="/facts/Oracle_database/FHv5g732">Oracle database</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Western_Latin_character_sets_(computing)/3sv2ugKh">Western Latin character sets (computing)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/DIN_91379/FNhXRDR7">DIN 91379</a> Unicode subset for Europe</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=29505&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3=">ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999</a> - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9 (published March 15, 1999)</li> <li><a href="http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n404.pdf">ISO/IEC 8859-15</a> <i>(final committee draft dated August 1, 1997)</i></li> <li><a href="https://jkorpela.fi/latin9.html">ISO Latin 9 as compared with ISO Latin 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ir/203.pdf">ISO-IR 203</a> European supplementary Latin set <i>(September 16, 1998)</i></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"ISO-8859-15". IANA. Retrieved 8 March 2016. <a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/ISO-8859-15" target="_blank">https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/ISO-8859-15</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Code page 923 information document". Archived from the original on 2013-02-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130228060505/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp00923.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130228060505/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp00923.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"CCSID 923 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-12-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141201230853/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid923.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20141201230853/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid923.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Historical trends in the usage of character encodings, November 2018". w3techs.com. <a href="http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding" target="_blank">http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Frequently Asked Questions". w3techs.com. <a href="http://w3techs.com/faq" target="_blank">http://w3techs.com/faq</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>TIEKE representing Finnish Standards Association SFS (1999-12-07). Sami supplementary Latin set no 2 (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ. ISO-IR-209. <a href="https://itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ir/209.pdf" target="_blank">https://itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ir/209.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-15". Retrieved 26 February 2017. <a href="http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/8859-sami.html" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/8859-sami.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-14 (later 15)". Retrieved 26 February 2017. <a href="http://www.evertype.com/pics/emonopics/latin9.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/pics/emonopics/latin9.jpg</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-16". Retrieved 26 February 2017. <a href="http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/8859-15.html" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/8859-15.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-0 (later 15)". Retrieved 26 February 2017. <a href="http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/latin00.html" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/latin00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-0 (later 15)". Retrieved 26 February 2017. <a href="http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/latin00.html" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso8859/latin00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Stolz, Otto (July 11, 1997). "Re: New Draft ISO 8859-0". Unicode Mail List (Mailing list). <a href="https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML008/0581.html" target="_blank">https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML008/0581.html</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Complete support except for Ǿ/ǿ which are missing. Ǿ/ǿ can be replaced with Ø/ø at the cost of increased ambiguity. <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Commonly supported with nearly complete coverage of the Dutch alphabet, as the missing IJ, ij should always be represented as two-character IJ or ij in electronic form. <a href="/wiki/IJ_(letter)" target="_blank">/wiki/IJ_(letter)</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>US and modern British <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Complete support except for uppercase ẞ, which not officially adopted by the Council for German Orthography until 2017. <a href="/wiki/%C3%9F" target="_blank">/wiki/%C3%9F</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>New orthography <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Basic classical orthography <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Basic classical orthography <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Rumi script <a href="/wiki/Rumi_script" target="_blank">/wiki/Rumi_script</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>Bokmål and Nynorsk <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>European and Brazilian <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>Code Page CPGID 00923 (pdf) (PDF), IBM <a href="https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00923.pdf" target="_blank">https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00923.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:24"><p>Code Page CPGID 00923 (txt), IBM <a href="https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00923.txt" target="_blank">https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00923.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:24" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:25"><p>International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-923_P100-1998.ucm, 2002-12-03 <a href="https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-923_P100-1998.ucm" target="_blank">https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-923_P100-1998.ucm</a> <a href="#fnref:25" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:26"><p>Baird, Cathy; Chiba, Dan; Chu, Winson; Fan, Jessica; Ho, Claire; Law, Simon; Lee, Geoff; Linsley, Peter; Matsuda, Keni; Oscroft, Tamzin; Takeda, Shige; Tanaka, Linus; Tozawa, Makoto; Trute, Barry; Tsujimoto, Mayumi; Wu, Ying; Yau, Michael; Yu, Tim; Wang, Chao; Wong, Simon; Zhang, Weiran; Zheng, Lei; Zhu, Yan; Moore, Valarie (2002) [1996]. "Appendix A: Locale Data". Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide (PDF) (Release 2 (9.2) ed.). Oracle Corporation. Oracle A96529-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-14. <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf" target="_blank">https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:26" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>