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ISO_8859-2

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2007-11-25
Index Return to Main Contents

NAME

iso_8859-2 - the ISO 8859-2 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 8859-2, the "Latin Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin characters and is implemented by several program vendors. ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian. Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.

ISO 8859 Alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO 8859-1	West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2	Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3	Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4	Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5	Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6	Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7	Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8	Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9	Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10	Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11	Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13	Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14	Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15	West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16	Romanian (Latin-10)

ISO 8859-2 Characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), 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 8859-2.

Oct	Dec	Hex	Char	Description

240	160	A0	�	NO-BREAK SPACE
241	161	A1	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242	162	A2	�	BREVE
243	163	A3	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
244	164	A4	�	CURRENCY SIGN
245	165	A5	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
246	166	A6	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
247	167	A7	�	SECTION SIGN
250	168	A8	�	DIAERESIS
251	169	A9	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
252	170	AA	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
253	171	AB	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON
254	172	AC	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
255	173	AD	�[shc]	SOFT HYPHEN
256	174	AE	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
257	175	AF	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
260	176	B0	�	DEGREE SIGN
261	177	B1	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
262	178	B2	�	OGONEK
263	179	B3	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
264	180	B4	�	ACUTE ACCENT
265	181	B5	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
266	182	B6	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
267	183	B7	�	CARON
270	184	B8	�	CEDILLA
271	185	B9	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
272	186	BA	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
273	187	BB	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
274	188	BC	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
275	189	BD	�	DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT
276	190	BE	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
277	191	BF	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
300	192	C0	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
301	193	C1	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302	194	C2	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303	195	C3	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
304	196	C4	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305	197	C5	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
306	198	C6	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
307	199	C7	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
310	200	C8	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
311	201	C9	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312	202	CA	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
313	203	CB	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314	204	CC	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
315	205	CD	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316	206	CE	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317	207	CF	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
320	208	D0	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321	209	D1	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
322	210	D2	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CARON
323	211	D3	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
324	212	D4	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325	213	D5	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
326	214	D6	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
327	215	D7	�	MULTIPLICATION SIGN
330	216	D8	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON
331	217	D9	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
332	218	DA	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
333	219	DB	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
334	220	DC	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
335	221	DD	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
336	222	DE	�	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
337	223	DF	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340	224	E0	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
341	225	E1	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342	226	E2	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343	227	E3	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
344	228	E4	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
345	229	E5	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
346	230	E6	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
347	231	E7	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350	232	E8	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351	233	E9	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352	234	EA	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
353	235	EB	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354	236	EC	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
355	237	ED	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356	238	EE	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357	239	EF	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
360	240	F0	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361	241	F1	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
362	242	F2	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CARON
363	243	F3	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
364	244	F4	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365	245	F5	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
366	246	F6	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367	247	F7	�	DIVISION SIGN
370	248	F8	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
371	249	F9	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
372	250	FA	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
373	251	FB	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
374	252	FC	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
375	253	FD	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
376	254	FE	�	LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
377	255	FF	�	DOT ABOVE

COLOPHON

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