ISO/IEC 8859-2

ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central^[1] or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2, PC Latin 2) which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions.^[2]

ISO-8859-2 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. 0.3% of all web pages use ISO 8859-2 in January 2016.^[3] Microsoft has assigned code page 28592 aka Windows-28592 to ISO-8859-2 in Windows.

Codepage 1250 aka Windows-1250 has many of the same characters but in a different arrangement.

These code values can be used for the following languages:

• Bosnian
• Croatian
• Czech
• German (fully compatible with ISO/IEC 8859-1 for German texts)
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Serbian Latin
• Slovak
• Slovene
• Upper Sorbian
• Lower Sorbian
• Turkmen.

It can also be used for Romanian, but it is unsuitable for that language, because of lack of letters s and t with commas below, containing s and t with cedillas instead. These letters were unified in the first versions of the Unicode standard, meaning that the appearance with cedilla or with comma was treated as a glyph choice rather than as separate characters; fonts intended for use with Romanian should, therefore, have characters with comma below at those code points. Still, ISO/IEC 8859-2 and Windows-1250 (with the same problem) have been heavily used for Romanian. Unicode (which supports both variants) has taken the lead for web pages, which however often have s and t with cedilla anyway.

Code page layout

In the following table characters are shown together with their corresponding Unicode code points. Note that code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-2. Code 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NON-BREAKING SPACE. Code AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which even in isolation may not appear at all in compliant web browsers.

Legend:

Alphabetic   Control character   Numeric digit   Punctuation

Extended punctuation   Graphic character   International   Undefined

ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2)

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_
1_
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6_	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7_	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126
8_
9_
A_	NBSP 00A0 160	Ą 0104 161	˘ 02D8 162	Ł 0141 163	¤ 00A4 164	Ľ 013D 165	Ś 015A 166	§ 00A7 167	¨ 00A8 168	Š 0160 169	Ş 015E 170	Ť 0164 171	Ź 0179 172	SHY 00AD 173	Ž 017D 174	Ż 017B 175
B_	° 00B0 176	ą 0105 177	˛ 02DB 178	ł 0142 179	´ 00B4 180	ľ 013E 181	ś 015B 182	ˇ 02C7 183	¸ 00B8 184	š 0161 185	ş 015F 186	ť 0165 187	ź 017A 188	˝ 02DD 189	ž 017E 190	ż 017C 191
C_	Ŕ 0154 192	Á 00C1 193	Â 00C2 194	Ă 0102 195	Ä 00C4 196	Ĺ 0139 197	Ć 0106 198	Ç 00C7 199	Č 010C 200	É 00C9 201	Ę 0118 202	Ë 00CB 203	Ě 011A 204	Í 00CD 205	Î 00CE 206	Ď 010E 207
D_	Đ 0110 208	Ń 0143 209	Ň 0147 210	Ó 00D3 211	Ô 00D4 212	Ő 0150 213	Ö 00D6 214	× 00D7 215	Ř 0158 216	Ů 016E 217	Ú 00DA 218	Ű 0170 219	Ü 00DC 220	Ý 00DD 221	Ţ 0162 222	ß 00DF 223
E_	ŕ 0155 224	á 00E1 225	â 00E2 226	ă 0103 227	ä 00E4 228	ĺ 013A 229	ć 0107 230	ç 00E7 231	č 010D 232	é 00E9 233	ę 0119 234	ë 00EB 235	ě 011B 236	í 00ED 237	î 00EE 238	ď 010F 239
F_	đ 0111 240	ń 0144 241	ň 0148 242	ó 00F3 243	ô 00F4 244	ő 0151 245	ö 00F6 246	÷ 00F7 247	ř 0159 248	ů 016F 249	ú 00FA 250	ű 0171 251	ü 00FC 252	ý 00FD 253	ţ 0163 254	˙ 02D9 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

See also

• Character encoding
• Polish code pages

References

1. "Microsoft Outlook Message Encodings".
2. The Czech and Slovak Character Encoding Mess Explained
3. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding

External links

• ISO 8859-2:1999
• Standard ECMA-94: 8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)
• ISO-IR 101 Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.2 (February 1, 1986)
• ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources