ISO/IEC 8859-10

ISO/IEC 8859-10
MIME / IANAISO-8859-10
Alias(es)iso-ir-157, l6, csISOLatin6, latin6[1]
Language(s)Nordic languages
StandardECMA-144, ISO/IEC 8859
ClassificationISO 8859 (extended ASCII, ISO 4873 level 1)
ExtendsUS-ASCII
Based onISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-4

ISO/IEC 8859-10:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1992. It is informally referred to as Latin-6. It was designed to cover the Nordic languages, deemed of more use for them than ISO 8859-4.

ISO-8859-10 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28600 a.k.a. Windows-28600 to ISO-8859-10 in Windows. IBM has assigned Code page 919 to ISO-8859-10. It is published by Ecma International as ECMA-144.[2]

  1. ^ Character Sets, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 2018-12-12
  2. ^ Standard ECMA-144: 8-Bit Single-Byte Coded Character Sets - Latin Alphabet No. 6 (3rd ed.). 2000. This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 8859-10.