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ISO_8859-2(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ISO_8859-2(7)
iso_8859-2 - the ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and
hexadecimal
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.
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
ISO 8859-1 West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO 8859-2 Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO 8859-3 Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9 Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO 8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
ISO 8859-13 Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO 8859-14 Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
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.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
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240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
241 161 A1 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242 162 A2 ? BREVE
243 163 A3 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
244 164 A4 ? CURRENCY SIGN
245 165 A5 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
246 166 A6 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
247 167 A7 ? SECTION SIGN
250 168 A8 ? DIAERESIS
251 169 A9 (C) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
252 170 AA ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
253 171 AB << LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON
254 172 AC ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
255 173 AD - SOFT HYPHEN
256 174 AE (R) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
257 175 AF ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
260 176 B0 ? DEGREE SIGN
261 177 B1 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
262 178 B2 ? OGONEK
263 179 B3 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
264 180 B4 ? ACUTE ACCENT
265 181 B5 u LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
266 182 B6 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
267 183 B7 ? CARON
270 184 B8 , CEDILLA
271 185 B9 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
272 186 BA ? LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
273 187 BB >> LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
274 188 BC 1/4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
275 189 BD 1/2 DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT
276 190 BE 3/4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
277 191 BF ? LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
300 192 C0 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
301 193 C1 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302 194 C2 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303 195 C3 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
304 196 C4 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305 197 C5 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
306 198 C6 AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
307 199 C7 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
310 200 C8 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
311 201 C9 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312 202 CA ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
313 203 CB ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314 204 CC ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
315 205 CD ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316 206 CE ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317 207 CF ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
320 208 D0 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321 209 D1 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
322 210 D2 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CARON
323 211 D3 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
324 212 D4 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325 213 D5 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
326 214 D6 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
327 215 D7 x MULTIPLICATION SIGN
330 216 D8 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON
331 217 D9 ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
332 218 DA ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
333 219 DB ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
334 220 DC ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
335 221 DD ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
336 222 DE ? LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
337 223 DF ss LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340 224 E0 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
341 225 E1 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342 226 E2 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343 227 E3 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
344 228 E4 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
345 229 E5 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
346 230 E6 ae LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
347 231 E7 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350 232 E8 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351 233 E9 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352 234 EA ? LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
353 235 EB ? LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354 236 EC ? LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
355 237 ED ? LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356 238 EE ? LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357 239 EF ? LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
360 240 F0 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361 241 F1 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
362 242 F2 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CARON
363 243 F3 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
364 244 F4 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365 245 F5 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
366 246 F6 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367 247 F7 ? DIVISION SIGN
370 248 F8 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
371 249 F9 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
372 250 FA ? LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
373 251 FB ? LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
374 252 FC ? LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
375 253 FD ? LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
376 254 FE ? LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
377 255 FF ? DOT ABOVE
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).
This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2007-11-25 ISO_8859-2(7)