Описание тега iso-8859-15

ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ascii-based standard character-encoding s, first edition published in 1999. It is informally referred to as Latin-9 (and was for a while called Latin-0).

It is similar to iso-8859-1, and thus generally intended for “Western European†languages, but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some letters that were now deemed missing in part 1 for the target use.

ISO-8859-15 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO-6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28605 aka Windows-28605 to ISO-8859-15.

There were attempts to make ISO-8859-15 the default character set for 8-bit communication, but it was never able to supplant the popular ISO-8859-1. However, it did see some use as a character set for terminal or textual programs under Linux when the Euro sign was needed, but the use of full utf-8 (Unicode) was not practical. All the printable characters from both ISO/IEC 8859-1 and ISO/IEC 8859-15 are also found in windows-1252.

Changes from ISO-8859-1

Position  0xA4  0xA6  0xA8  0xB4  0xB8  0xBC  0xBD  0xBE
8859-1       ¤     ¦     ¨     ´     ¸     ¼     ½     ¾
8859-15      €     Š     š     Ž     ž     Œ     œ     Ÿ