ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 8859-1 First edition 1998-04-15 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1 Technologies de Iinformation --- Jeux de caracteres graphiques codés sur unseuloctet Partie1:Alphabetlatinno1 Reference number ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998(E) Copyright Intermational Organization for Standardization rovided by IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998(E) Contents Page Foreword Introduction 1 Scope 2 Conformance 3 Normative references 4 Definitions 2 5 Notation, code table and character names 2 6 Specification of the coded character set 7 Identification of the character set Annex A: Coverage of languages by parts 1 to 1o of ISO/IEC8859 Annex B: Main differences between the First edition and this Second edition of this part of ISo/IEC 8859 Annex C: Bibliography 10 ISO/IEC1998 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm,without permission in writingfrom thepublisher. ISO/IEC Copyright Office ·Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneve 20 . Switzerland Printed in Switzerland ii No reproduction or networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale @ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998(E) Foreword ISO (the International Organizationfor Standardization)andIEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEc participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEc technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental and nongovernmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology, IsO and IEc have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC1. Draft International Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard vote. International Standard ISO/IEC 8859-1 was prepared byJoint Technicail Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee sc 2, Character sets and information coding. This edition cancels and replaces ISO 8859-1:1987, which has been technically revised. ISO/lEc 8859 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets: Part 1: Latin alphabet No.1 Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2 Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3 Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4 Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet Part 9: Latin alphabet No.5 Part 10:Latin alphabet No.6 Annexes A to C of this part of ISO/lEC 8859 are for information only ili No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale