ISO_8859-2

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)
Updated: 2007-11-25
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NAME

iso_8859-2 - the ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal  

DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-2, the "Latin Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin characters and is implemented by several program vendors. ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian. Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.  

ISO 8859 Alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
ISO 8859-1West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16Romanian (Latin-10)
 

ISO 8859-2 Characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment configured for ISO 8859-2.
OctDecHexCharDescription
240160A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
241161A1ĄLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242162A2˘BREVE
243163A3ŁLATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
244164A4¤CURRENCY SIGN
245165A5ĽLATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
246166A6ŚLATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
247167A7§SECTION SIGN
250168A8¨DIAERESIS
251169A9ŠLATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
252170AAŞLATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
253171ABŤLATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON
254172ACŹLATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
255173AD­[shc]SOFT HYPHEN
256174AEŽLATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
257175AFŻLATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
260176B0°DEGREE SIGN
261177B1ąLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
262178B2˛OGONEK
263179B3łLATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
264180B4´ACUTE ACCENT
265181B5ľLATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
266182B6śLATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
267183B7ˇCARON
270184B8¸CEDILLA
271185B9šLATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
272186BAşLATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
273187BBťLATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
274188BCźLATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
275189BD˝DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT
276190BEžLATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
277191BFżLATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
300192C0ŔLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
301193C1ÁLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302194C2ÂLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303195C3ĂLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
304196C4ÄLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305197C5ĹLATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
306198C6ĆLATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
307199C7ÇLATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
310200C8ČLATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
311201C9ÉLATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312202CAĘLATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
313203CBËLATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314204CCĚLATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
315205CDÍLATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316206CEÎLATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317207CFĎLATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
320208D0ĐLATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321209D1ŃLATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
322210D2ŇLATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CARON
323211D3ÓLATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
324212D4ÔLATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325213D5ŐLATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
326214D6ÖLATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
327215D7×MULTIPLICATION SIGN
330216D8ŘLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON
331217D9ŮLATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
332218DAÚLATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
333219DBŰLATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
334220DCÜLATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
335221DDÝLATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
336222DEŢLATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
337223DFßLATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340224E0ŕLATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
341225E1áLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342226E2âLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343227E3ăLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
344228E4äLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
345229E5ĺLATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
346230E6ćLATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
347231E7çLATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350232E8čLATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351233E9éLATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352234EAęLATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
353235EBëLATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354236ECěLATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
355237EDíLATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356238EEîLATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357239EFďLATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
360240F0đLATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361241F1ńLATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
362242F2ňLATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CARON
363243F3óLATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
364244F4ôLATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365245F5őLATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
366246F6öLATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367247F7÷DIVISION SIGN
370248F8řLATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
371249F9ůLATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
372250FAúLATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
373251FBűLATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
374252FCüLATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
375253FDýLATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
376254FEţLATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
377255FF˙DOT ABOVE
 

SEE ALSO

ascii(7), iso_8859-1(7), iso_8859-16(7) Additional information: ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources (http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/linux/cee/iso8859-2.html).  

COLOPHON

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