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ISO/IEC 8859-15
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<p>ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, <i>Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9</i>, is part of the <a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_8859/KFAUkAQ9">ISO/IEC 8859</a> series of ASCII-based standard <a href="/facts/Character_encoding/ShJHIMoA">character encodings</a>, first edition published in 1999. It is informally referred to as Latin-9 (and for a while Latin-0). It is similar to <a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_8859-1/xPNVSEE6">ISO 8859-1</a>, and thus also intended for “Western European” languages, but replaces some less common symbols with the <a href="/facts/Euro_sign/boK32Hs4">euro sign</a> and some letters that were deemed necessary. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th></th><th><a href="/facts/Hexadecimal/02ohQW22">A4</a></th><th>A6</th><th>A8</th><th>B4</th><th>B8</th><th>BC</th><th>BD</th><th>BE</th></tr><tr><th>8859-1</th><td><a href="/facts/Currency_(typography)/TVd6UAcl">¤</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Broken_bar/Yq77nJ6f">¦</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C2%25A8/FsYeoSzC">¨</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Acute_accent/XDHwqnvk">´</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cedilla/W3Ux5jWa">¸</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Fraction_(mathematics)/ghnQE9B3">¼</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C2%25BD/7hsUnBda">½</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Fraction_(mathematics)/ghnQE9B3">¾</a></td></tr><tr><th>8859-15</th><td><a href="/facts/Euro_sign/boK32Hs4">€</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25A0/1DcekgEL">Š</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25A0/1DcekgEL">š</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25BD/Bf1NUwpT">Ž</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25BD/Bf1NUwpT">ž</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%2592/kDUta34M">Œ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%2592/kDUta34M">œ</a></td><td><a href="/facts/%25C5%25B8/anP6EhKq">Ÿ</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>ISO-8859-15 is the <a href="/facts/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority/b6MlP6zQ">IANA</a> preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the <a href="/facts/C0_and_C1_control_codes/bBp1dGVl">C0 and C1 control codes</a> from <a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_6429/29l9Yalv">ISO/IEC 6429</a>. </p><p>Microsoft has assigned code page 28605 a.k.a. Windows-28605 to ISO-8859-15. IBM has assigned code page 923 (<a href="/facts/CCSID/NKSgxNDg">CCSID</a> 923) to ISO 8859-15. </p><p>All the printable characters from both ISO/IEC 8859-1 and ISO/IEC 8859-15 are also found in <a href="/facts/Windows-1252/eyM337y0">Windows-1252</a>. Since October 2016, less than 0.1% (actually currently less than 0.02%) of all web sites use ISO-8859-15. </p>