ISO/IEC 8859-15

ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999
MIME / IANAISO-8859-15
Alias(es)latin-9, latin-0, latin-6
StandardISO/IEC 8859
Based onISO-8859-1
Preceded byISO-8859-1
Succeeded byUTF-8

ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1999. It is informally referred to as Latin-9 (and for a while Latin-0). It is similar to ISO 8859-1, and thus also intended for “Western European” languages, but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some letters that were deemed necessary.[1]

A4 A6 A8 B4 B8 BC BD BE
8859-1 ¤ ¦ ¨ ´ ¸ ¼ ½ ¾
8859-15 € Š š Ž ž Œ œ Ÿ

ISO-8859-15 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 28605 a.k.a. Windows-28605 to ISO-8859-15. IBM has assigned code page 923 (CCSID 923) to ISO 8859-15.[2][3]

All the printable characters from both ISO/IEC 8859-1 and ISO/IEC 8859-15 are also found in Windows-1252. Since October 2016, less than 0.1% (actually currently less than 0.02%) of all web sites use ISO-8859-15.[4][5]

  1. ^ "ISO-8859-15". IANA. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Code page 923 information document". Archived from the original on 2013-02-28.
  3. ^ "CCSID 923 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-12-01.
  4. ^ "Historical trends in the usage of character encodings, November 2018". w3techs.com.
  5. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". w3techs.com.