ISO/IEC 8859
Series of standards for 8-bit character encodings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12.[1] The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards has been disbanded.
It has been suggested that ISO/IEC 8859-12 be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2023. |
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Standard | ISO/IEC 8859 |
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Classification | 8-bit extended ASCII, ISO/IEC 4873 level 1 |
Extends | US-ASCII |
Preceded by | ISO/IEC 646 |
Succeeded by | ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) |
Other related encoding(s) | ISO/IEC 10367, Windows-125x |
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ISO/IEC 8859 parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally Ecma International standard ECMA-94.