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. 0.2% of all web pages use ISO 8859-2 in June 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:

• Albanian
• Bosnian
• Croatian
• Czech
• German (fully compatible with ISO/IEC 8859-1 for German texts)
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Romanian (note the comments below)
• 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. Microsoft did not really provide such fonts for computers sold in Romania. 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