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  Vernon Frazee: Who/What is ISO and 8859-1?
The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
The term ISO is not an acronym, it is a word, derived from the Greek isos, meaning "equal".
The term ISO is used around the world to denote the organization, thus avoiding the plethora of acronyms resulting from the translation of "International Organization for Standardization" into the different national languages of members, e.g.
www.comp-air.com /vfrazee/iso.htm   (239 words)

  
 ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ
ISO 8859-X character sets use the characters 0xa0 through 0xff to represent national characters, while the characters in the 0x20-0x7f range are those used in the US-ASCII (ISO 646) character set.
TCP and ISO 8859-1 TCP was specified by US-Americans, for US-Americans.
While ISO 8859-X was designed for considerable portability, texts are still restricted mostly to their character set and portability to other cultural areas is a problem.
www.uni-giessen.de /faq/archiv/internationalization.iso-8859-1-charset/msg00000.html   (9048 words)

  
 ISO Latin 9 as compared with ISO Latin 1
ISO Latin 9 is a relatively new addition to the ISO 8859 family of character sets, published as a standard 1999-03-15 by
ISO Latin 9 differs from the widely used ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) in some character positions only.
ISO 4217 codes are used for currencies, the abbreviation to be used is EUR.
www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/latin9.html   (821 words)

  
 ISO_8859-1
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-1, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.
www.devdaily.com /unix/man/man7/latin1.7.shtml   (127 words)

  
 ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Characters List
There is also an HTML entities test document, that uses all the defined HTML entitity references.
For more information on the the International Standards Organization, and the ISO 8859 character sets, have a look at the ISO Web site.
46 2e / 47 2f 0 48 30 1 49 31 2 50 32 3 51 33 4 52 34 5 53 35 6 54 36 7 55 37 8 56 38 9 57 39 : 58 3a ; 59 3b < 60 3c andlt; = 61 3d > 62 3e andgt; ?
www.utoronto.ca /webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/iso_table.html   (168 words)

  
 ISO_8859-1(7) manual page
Characters specified according to the ISO 8859 Latin-1 encoding for European languages.
Especially ISO 8859-1, the "Latin alphabet No. 1", which has become widely implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII replacement.
The first field is the octal code for the character, the second is the name (patterned after the GNU Emacs naming scheme in the iso-insert.el library), the third is the equivalent TeX command, and the fourth is the character itself (however your terminal may display it).
hegel.ittc.ku.edu /topics/linux/man-pages/man7/latin1.7.html   (125 words)

  
 ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 and Unicode characters in ampersand entities
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 and Unicode characters in ampersand entities
Finally, note that positions 127-159 are not displayable characters in ISO 8859-1 Latin 1, and are not part of any HTML standard, so that HTML code such as "and#153;" is incorrect, and will be displayed differently in browsers on different platforms (probably often in ways that you did not intend).
The characters 128-159 are not used in ISO 8859-1 and Unicode, the character sets of HTML.
www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/latin1.html   (1805 words)

  
 More about Text in HTML
ISO 8859 is a set of 10 different 256-character sets used to represent a large set of the alphabetic languages used in the West.
The ISO 8859-1 (also called ISO-Latin) character set is the one used for HTTP (the transport protocol for web documents) and is also used in the creation of HTML documents.
It is acceptable to leave all ISO 8859-1 characters as unencoded character octets, but there can be no guarantee that all destination systems will understand all of the characters.
www.blooberry.com /indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm   (1414 words)

  
 ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources
ISO 8859-2 character set is a part of ISO 8859 series of 8-bit character sets for writing in Western alphabetic languages (i.e.
The complete ISO 8859 series is registered by IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority) for use with MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions).
ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - an excellent graphic overview of all the character sets in the ISO 8859 family, with numerous links (Roman Czyborra, Berlin, Germany).
nl.ijs.si /gnusl/cee/iso8859-2.html   (1608 words)

  
 FAQ-ISO-8859-1
For further information on using ISO 8859-1 with emacs, also see the Emacs manual section on "European Display" (available as hypertext document by typing C-h i in emacs or as a printed version).
13.3 News and ISO 8859-1 Much as mail, the Usenet news protocol specification is 7 bit based, but a significant part of the infrastructure has recently been upgraded to 8 bit service...
ISO 8859-1 is _the_ standard for typing accented characters in most newsgroups (may be different for MS-DOS centered newsgroups ;-), and is preferred in most European news group hierarchies, such as at.* or de.*
www.abc.se /~m9339/linux/linuxdoc/iso8859-1.faq.html   (5365 words)

  
 ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup
The ISO 8859 charsets are not even remotely as complete as the truly great Unicode but they have been around and usable for quite a while (first
ISO 10646) will make this whole chaos of mutually incompatible charsets superfluous because it unifies a superset of all established charsets and is out to cover all the world's languages.
ISO 639 language codes for some 150 of the world's several thousand known languages.
czyborra.com /charsets/iso8859.html   (1564 words)

  
 ASCII/ISO 8859 (Latin-1) Table
Sandia Labs' "ISO Latin 1 Character HTML Entity Names", and "HTML 3.0 Character Entity Sets" which list all 256 character references and indicate those control characters not used by HTML.
ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Characters List which lists all 256 character references.
ISO Latin 1 Character Entities and HTML Escape Sequence Table" which lists nearly all 256 character references.
cs.stanford.edu /people/miles/iso8859.html   (542 words)

  
 Martin Ramsch - iso8859-1 table
Please note that there is nothing wrong with using characters of ISO Latin-1 above 127: the normal transmission protocol for the WWW, HTTP/1.0, uses the 8bit ISO latin-1 as default encoding.
The excellent overview on the series of ISO 8859 character sets compiled by Roman Czyborra.
Maybe also of interest to you is the ISO 8859-1 FAQ by Michael Gschwind (mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at), part of his page on Internationalization.
www.ramsch.org /martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html   (337 words)

  
 ISO 8859-1 character set overview
The following tables give all characters which are available in the ISO Latin 1 character set.
166;), superscript 1 (and#185;), 2 (and#178;) and 3 (and#179;), shy (and#173;) quarter (and#188;), half (and#189;), three quarters (and#190;), uppercase (and#208;) and lowercase eth (and#240;), uppercase (and#222;) and lowercase thorn (and#254;), uppercase (and#221;) and lowercase y acute (and#253;) and the multiplication sign (and#215;).
CourierWeb, monospaced font that can display all entities correctly.
www.htmlhelp.org /reference/charset   (467 words)

  
 Koders - galician-iso-8859-1.inc.php   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The third parameter, if set to 1 will convert the output using htmlspecialchars() (Default is 1).
A fourth parameter, if set to 1 will put a NOWRAP to the content cell so that the whole output will be shown without reformatting (Default 1)'; $strTransformation_text_plain__formatted = 'Mantn o formato orixinal do campo.
O terceiro parmetro, se 1, usar htmlspecialchars() para convertir a sada (Por omisin 1).
www.koders.com /php/fidE2338875E00F84138DF99503BA8BC143C72CB1D5.aspx   (843 words)

  
 The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire - a description with usage notes
ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) characters in detail from a practical point of view, with usage notes.
One of the purposes is to remove common misconceptions and uncertainty as regards to meanings of characters.
www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/latin1   (141 words)

  
 ISO - International Organization for Standardization
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News and views on ISO's activity in international standardization over almost the entire range of technology, from multimedia applications, safety requirements, interchangeability and compatibility of equipment to the movement of goods, people and services.
www.iso.ch /iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage   (246 words)

  
 Character Entity Set(s)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This list is derived from "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN" however HTML does not provide support for the entire entity set.
The following table lists each of the characters specified in the Added Latin 1 entity set, along with its name, syntax for use, and description.
This list is derived from "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN", and HTML does provide support for the entire entity set.
www.w3.org /MarkUp/html3/latin1.html   (205 words)

  
 iso_8859_1(7) man page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This character set is available if setlocale (3V) is declared as: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, iso_8859_1) or: setlocale(LC_ALL, iso_8859_1) see setlocale(3V) for more information about declaring categories and locales.
ISO Latin 1 Character Set The following table displays the ISO 8859/1 character set.
This character set is not currently available on-line, please refer to the printed version of this manual page.
www.rahul.net /cgi-bin/userbin/man?topic=iso_8859_1§ion=7   (72 words)

  
 ISO 8859-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This means that variations of the sets are needed to cover all the letters used in different languages.
So here is a short list of what to expect from the most important operating systems and browsers and suggestions on how to make the characters show up properly, if possible.
UNIX users will either use lynx in a terminal window that doesn't support ISO 8859-1 or they will use a graphical browser under the X-Windows system (Netscape or Mosaic) that normally will be able to show the characters properly.
www.hum.ku.dk /onp/char_set.htm   (247 words)

  
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If the character set is from an ISO standard, its cs alias is the ISO standard number or name.
If the character set is not from an ISO standard, but is registered with ISO (IPSJ/ITSCJ is the current ISO Registration Authority), the ISO Registry number is specified as ISOnnn followed by letters suggestive of the name or standards number of the code set.
When a national or international standard is revised, the year of revision is added to the cs alias of the new character set entry in the IANA Registry in order to distinguish the revised character set from the original character set.
www.iana.org /assignments/character-sets   (1379 words)

  
 Configuring WWW Server for ISO 8859-2
HTTP specification [1] requires HTTP transport protocol to transmit a data stream without imposing any limitations to ASCII or printable characters.
Within an intranet (the in-house information system) in an enviroment where ISO 8859-2 encoding is used, one might freely choose to encode all the documents in ISO 8859-2.
If the intended audience is broader, however, one has to realize that ISO 8859-2 encoding is seldom used outside the Central and Eastern Europe, and that the current HTTP specification does not require a browser to be capable to display a document encoded in ISO 8859-2.
nl.ijs.si /gnusl/cee/app/httpd.html   (1217 words)

  
 ASCII - ISO 8859-1 Table with HTML Entity Names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Note that the first 128 character codes of any of the ISO 8859 character sets is always identical to the ASCII character set.
Hyperlinks are provided from individual entity names, their collating sequence section's title, or their entire collating sequence's title to the reference documents describing or specifying those entities.
Indicates a character whose entity name is not defined in ISO 8879 or is unknown to the author.
www.bbsinc.com /iso8859.html   (1280 words)

  
 Defined ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) Entities
These entites are supported by almost all browsers, and are defined as part of the ISO Latin-1 character set.
Column 1 defines the decimal position of the character in the Unicode character set.
Column 7 lists the ISO standard (if any) that originally defined this entity name.
www.utoronto.ca /ian/books/xhtml1/entity/en_test.html   (261 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
If any of those fourteen characters are used, of course, the pasted material will only be displayed correctly if you use an appropriately adapted font in the word-processor, just as in the browser.
Superscript 1, 2 and 3 were displayed as normal digits 1, 2 and 3 in the 8-bit and the
It should be clearly understood that when these kludged characters are pasted into another document, they do not come over as their original selves, but as the kludged equivalents that Netscape have provided.
ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk /~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-mac.html   (3317 words)

  
 Articles - ISO-8859-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Control characters, the space character, the no-break space character, and the soft hyphen character are represented by two-, three-, or four-letter abbreviations for their names.
The ISO-8859-x maps each add the ISO 646 C0 "control" characters from 00-1F, a control character at 7F, and control characters in the 80-9F range, thus encompassing a total of 256 characters.
ISO-8859-1 is unique among these maps in that its coded characters are equivalent to the first 256 code points of Unicode.
www.gaple.com /articles/ISO-8859-1   (480 words)

  
 Why use ISO-8859-1? « WordPress Support
INSERT INTO wp_options VALUES (93, 1, 'blog_charset', 'Y', 3, 'utf-8', 20, 8, 'your blog\'s charset (here\'s a list of possible charsets)', 8);
1-in index.php, replace the language meta by :
I am happy to notice that the pb of non english languages won't be left unsolved in the next version as i saw that more people from all over the world begin to use Wordpress
wordpress.org /support/topic/2574   (628 words)

  
 ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
is the two-letter code for the language from ISO 639, and
is the two-letter code for the country from ISO 3166, but I don't know of any standard specifying
' option should be set set to `-T latin1' if you want to use ISO 8859-1 as input encoding.
www.rz.go.dlr.de:8081 /info/faqs/unix-shells/iso-8859-1-charset.html   (8953 words)

  
 UTF-8 Unicode and ISO-8859-1
Windows and Mac users are warned that they should stick to the Real Official ISO Latin-1 and not stray into additions allowed by Windows Latin-1 (CP 1252) and Macintosh Roman.
When using Latin-1, Windows (and Mac users) should stick to Official ISO Latin-1 and not use the Windows CP 1252 codepage, which is (lamentably) sometimes called "Latin-1".
In real ISO Latin-1, character codes in the range 127-159 are undefined.
www.stanford.edu /~laurik/fsmbook/faq/utf8.html   (662 words)

  
 Tom Robinson—ISO 8859-1 Character Set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
ISO 8859-1 Character Set; Latin Alphabet No. 1—‘Western’ / ‘West European’
Derived from the HTML 4.01 Specification with inspiration from the Web Design Group’s ISO 8859-1 character set overview.
This document may be freely distributed provided it is copied intact.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /tomrobin/iso8859.html   (154 words)

  
 Defined ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) Entities & More
To solve this problem you can specify any character by putting an ampersand followed by either (1) a hash followed by the character's decimal ASCII code or (2) the character's HTML entity name.
Both of these options should be ended with a semicolon.
What you'll have just realised is that actually you can specify any normal, typeable ASCII character with its decimal character code - though usually there's no point when you can just type the letter.
access.lowtech.org /events/resources/ascii.html   (529 words)

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