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ISO -8859
Standard for 8-bit character sets whose
first 128 characters are identical to
ASCII .
The corresponding code pages
ISO -8859-1, -9, -14, and -15 ( Latin 1, -5 , -8, and -9)
contain the Western European characters, ISO -8859-2 (
Latin 2) covers most Eastern European characters, ISO
-8859-3 ( Latin 3) contains characters for Esperanto and
Maltese,
ISO -8859-4, -10, and -13 ( Latin 4, -6, and -7) contain the
Northern European (Baltic, Greenland, and Lapp) characters.
Also covered are: Cyrillic ( ISO -8859-5), Arabic (
ISO -8859-6), Greek ( ISO -8859-7), Hebrew ( ISO
-8859-8), and Thai ( ISO -8859-11).
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