ISOcodes (version 2019.04.22)

ISO_8859: ISO 8859 Character Codes

Description

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) codes for 8-bit character encodings for use by computers. The data set gives the maps of the characters to Unicode (i.e., the respective ISO 10646 codes).

Usage

ISO_8859

Format

A character array of dimension \(256 \times 15 \times 3\), with the first dimension corresponding to the character codes from 0 to 255 (0x00 to 0xff), the second to the parts of the ISO 8859 standard, and the third to the Unicode (ISO 10646) code and name, and the respective character.

Details

The ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, standard is divided into numbered, separately published parts, such as as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc., each of which may be informally referred to as a standard in itself. There are currently 15 parts as of 2006 excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12 standard:

Part 1	Latin-1 Western European
Part 2	Latin-2 Central European
Part 3	Latin-3 South European
Part 4	Latin-4 North European
Part 5	Latin/Cyrillic
Part 6	Latin/Arabic
Part 7	Latin/Greek
Part 8	Latin/Hebrew
Part 9	Latin-5 Turkish
Part 10	Latin-6 Nordic
Part 11	Latin/Thai
Part 13	Latin-7 Baltic Rim
Part 14	Latin-8 Celtic
Part 15	Latin-9

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## ISO 8859 characters at position 200 (number 199).
data("ISO_8859")
ISO_8859[200, , ]
# }