ISO/IEC 8859

ISO 8859 encoding family
StandardISO/IEC 8859
Classification8-bit extended ASCII, ISO/IEC 4873 level 1
ExtendsASCII
Preceded byISO/IEC 646
Succeeded byISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)
Other related encoding(s)ISO/IEC 10367, Windows-125x

ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12.[1] The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards has been disbanded.

ISO/IEC 8859 parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally Ecma International standard ECMA-94.

  1. ^ Chaudhuri, Arindam; Mandaviya, Krupa; Badelia, Pratixa; Ghosh, Soumya K. (2016-12-24), "Optical Character Recognition Systems for French Language", Optical Character Recognition Systems for Different Languages with Soft Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 109–136, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50252-6_5, ISBN 978-3-319-50251-9, retrieved 2023-12-04