ISO/IEC 8859-2
Template:Short description Template:Infobox character encoding ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2, PC Latin 2) which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Almost half the use of the encoding is for Polish, and it's the main legacy encoding for Polish, while virtually all use of it has been replaced by UTF-8 (on the web).
ISO-8859-2 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Less than 0.04% of all web pages use ISO-8859-2 as of October 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Microsoft has assigned code page 28592 a.k.a. Windows-28592 to ISO-8859-2 in Windows. IBM assigned code page 912 to ISO 8859-2,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> until that code page was extended in 1999.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Code page 1111 is similar, but replaces byte B0 ° (degree sign) with U+02DA ˚ (ring above).
Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place).
Language coverageEdit
These code values can be used for the following languages:
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Code page layoutEdit
Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number underneath.
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External linksEdit
- ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999
- Standard ECMA-94: 8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)
- ISO-IR 101 Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.2 (February 1, 1986)
- ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources