ISO_8859-2(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-2(7)
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, Romanian, 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:
l l. 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 Thai ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages
(Latin-7) ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8) ISO
8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-2 Characters
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859
Latin-2, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7)
manual page.
l l l c lp-1. Oct Dec Hex Char Description _
240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
241 161 A1 i LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242 162 A2 c BREVE 243 163 A3 L LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE 244 164 A4 x CURRENCY
SIGN 245 165 A5 Y LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
246 166 A6 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
247 167 A7 S SECTION SIGN
250 168 A8 " DIAERESIS 251 169 A9 (C) LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON 252 170 AA a LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA 253 171 AB << LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON 254 172 AC ~ LATIN
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CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE 255 173 AD - SOFT
HYPHEN 256 174 AE _ (R) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH
CARON 257 175 AF LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT
ABOVE 260 176 B0 o DEGREE SIGN
261 177 B1 +- LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
262 178 B2 2 OGONEK 263 179 B3 3 LATIN SMALL
LETTER L WITH STROKE 264 180 B4 ' ACUTE ACCENT
265 181 B5 u LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
266 182 B6 9| LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
267 183 B7 . CARON 270 184 B8 , CEDILLA
271 185 B9 1 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
272 186 BA o LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
273 187 BB >> LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
274 188 BC 1/4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
275 189 BD 1/2 DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT
276 190 BE 3/4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
277 191 BF c LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
300 192 C0 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
301 193 C1 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302 194 C2 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303 195 C3 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
304 196 C4 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305 197 C5 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
306 198 C6 AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
307 199 C7 C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
310 200 C8 E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
311 201 C9 E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312 202 CA E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
313 203 CB E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314 204 CC I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
315 205 CD I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316 206 CE I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317 207 CF I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
320 208 D0 D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321 209 D1 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
322 210 D2 O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CARON
323 211 D3 O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
324 212 D4 O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325 213 D5 O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE
ACUTE 326 214 D6 O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH
DIAERESIS 327 215 D7 x MULTIPLICATION SIGN
330 216 D8 O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON
331 217 D9 U LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
332 218 DA U LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
333 219 DB U LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE
ACUTE 334 220 DC U LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH
DIAERESIS 335 221 DD Y LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH
ACUTE 336 222 DE b LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH
CEDILLA 337 223 DF B LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340 224 E0 a LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
341 225 E1 a LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342 226 E2 a LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343 227 E3 a LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
344 228 E4 a LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
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345 229 E5 a LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
346 230 E6 ae LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
347 231 E7 c LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350 232 E8 e LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351 233 E9 e LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352 234 EA e LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
353 235 EB e LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354 236 EC i LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
355 237 ED i LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356 238 EE i LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357 239 EF i LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
360 240 F0 o LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361 241 F1 n LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
362 242 F2 o LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CARON
363 243 F3 o LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
364 244 F4 o LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365 245 F5 o LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
366 246 F6 o LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367 247 F7 -:- DIVISION SIGN
370 248 F8 o LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
371 249 F9 u LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
372 250 FA u LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
373 251 FB u LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
374 252 FC u LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
375 253 FD y LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
376 254 FE b LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
377 255 FF y DOT ABOVE
SEE ALSO
ascii(7), iso_8859_1(7)
Additional information: ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources
(http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/linux/cee/iso8859-2.html).
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