ISO_8859-1(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual ISO_8859-1(7) NAME iso_8859-1 - ISO/IEC 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal DESCRIPTION The ISO/IEC 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO/IEC 646-IRV). ISO/IEC 8859-1 encodes the characters used in many West European languages. ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes: l l. ISO/IEC 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1) ISO/IEC 8859-2 Central and East European lan- guages (Latin-2) ISO/IEC 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous lan- guages (Latin-3) ISO/IEC 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4) ISO/IEC 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic ISO/IEC 8859-6 Latin/Arabic ISO/IEC 8859-7 Latin/Greek ISO/IEC 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew ISO/IEC 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5) ISO/IEC 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) ISO/IEC 8859-11 Latin/Thai ISO/IEC 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7) ISO/IEC 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8) ISO/IEC 8859-15 West Eu- ropean languages (Latin-9) ISO/IEC 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10) ISO/IEC 8859-1 characters The following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-1 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. l l l c lp-1. Oct Dec Hex Char Description _ 240 160 A0 A NO-BREAK SPACE 241 161 A1 A INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK 242 162 A2 A CENT SIGN 243 163 A3 A POUND SIGN 244 164 A4 A CURRENCY SIGN 245 165 A5 A YEN SIGN 246 166 A6 A BROKEN BAR 247 167 A7 A SECTION SIGN 250 168 A8 A" DIAERESIS 251 169 A9 A(C) COPYRIGHT SIGN 252 170 AA A FEMININE ORDINAL IN- DICATOR 253 171 AB A LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 254 172 AC A NOT SIGN 255 173 AD A SOFT HYPHEN 256 174 AE A(R) REGISTERED SIGN 257 175 AF A MACRON 260 176 B0 A DEGREE SIGN 261 177 B1 A+/- PLUS-MINUS SIGN 262 178 B2 A SUPERSCRIPT TWO 263 179 B3 A SUPERSCRIPT THREE 264 180 B4 A' ACUTE ACCENT 265 181 B5 A MICRO SIGN 266 182 B6 A PILCROW SIGN 267 183 B7 A MIDDLE DOT 270 184 B8 A CEDILLA 271 185 B9 A SUPERSCRIPT ONE 272 186 BA A MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR 273 187 BB A RIGHT- POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 274 188 BC A1/4 VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER 275 189 BD A1/2 VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF 276 190 BE A3/4 VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS 277 191 BF A IN- VERTED QUESTION MARK 300 192 C0 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 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 TILDE 304 196 C4 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 305 197 C5 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 306 198 C6 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE 307 199 C7 A LATIN CAPI- TAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA 310 200 C8 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE 311 201 C9 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE 312 202 CA A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX 313 203 CB A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS 314 204 CC A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 315 205 CD A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 316 206 CE A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 317 207 CF A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 320 208 D0 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH 321 209 D1 A LATIN CAP- ITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE 322 210 D2 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE 323 211 D3 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE 324 212 D4 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX 325 213 D5 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE 326 214 D6 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS 327 215 D7 A MULTIPLICATION SIGN 330 216 D8 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE 331 217 D9 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE 332 218 DA A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE 333 219 DB A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX 334 220 DC A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS 335 221 DD A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE 336 222 DE A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN 337 223 DF A LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S 340 224 E0 A LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 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 TILDE 344 228 E4 A LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 345 229 E5 A LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 346 230 E6 A LATIN SMALL LETTER AE 347 231 E7 A LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA 350 232 E8 A" LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE 351 233 E9 A(C) LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE 352 234 EA A LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX 353 235 EB A LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS 354 236 EC A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 355 237 ED A- LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 356 238 EE A(R) LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 357 239 EF A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 360 240 F0 A LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH 361 241 F1 A+/- LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE 362 242 F2 A LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE 363 243 F3 A LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE 364 244 F4 A' LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX 365 245 F5 A LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE 366 246 F6 A LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS 367 247 F7 A DIVISION SIGN 370 248 F8 A LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE 371 249 F9 A LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE 372 250 FA A LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE 373 251 FB A LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX 374 252 FC A1/4 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS 375 253 FD A1/2 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE 376 254 FE A3/4 LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN 377 255 FF A LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS NOTES ISO/IEC 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1. SEE ALSO ascii(7), charsets(7), cp1252(7), iso_8859-15(7), utf-8(7) Linux man-pages 6.18 2026-02-08 ISO_8859-1(7)