Character Encoding: ISO 8859-2

Technical information about character encoding standard ISO 8859-2

Technical information about character encoding ISO 8859-2 is available below.

Name	General ISO 8859-2 Detailed ISO 8859-2 (Central European)
Alias	Latin-2
MIME / IANA	ISO-8859-2
Type	1 byte
Published	1987
Classification	Extended ASCII ISO/IEC 8859
Languages	Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian (Latin script), and others
Usage	less than 0.04%

The ISO 8859-2, also known as Latin-2, is a character encoding standard developed in the 1980s. It was tailored for various Central and Eastern European languages, including Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Serbian (using the Latin script), among others. It employs an 8-bit encoding scheme, which can represent up to 256 characters. The first 128 characters are identical to those in ASCII.

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The table below presents the characters supported by the ISO 8859-2 encoding standard, along with their respective codes.

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

0x

␀

␁

␂

␃

␄

␅

␆

␇

␈

␉

␊

␋

␌

␍

␎

␏

1x

␐

␑

␒

␓

␔

␕

␖

␗

␘

␙

␚

␛

␜

␝

␞

␟

2x

␠

!

"

#

$

%

&

'

(

)

*

+

,

-

.

/

3x

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

:

;

<

=

>

?

4x

@

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

5x

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

[

\

]

^

_

6x

`

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

7x

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

{

|

}

~

␡

8x

9x

Ax

Ą

˘

Ł

¤

Ľ

Ś

§

¨

Š

Ş

Ť

Ź

Ž

Ż

Bx

°

ą

˛

ł

´

ľ

ś

ˇ

¸

š

ş

ť

ź

˝

ž

ż

Cx

Ŕ

Á

Â

Ă

Ä

Ĺ

Ć

Ç

Č

É

Ę

Ë

Ě

Í

Î

Ď

Dx

Đ

Ń

Ň

Ó

Ô

Ő

Ö

×

Ř

Ů

Ú

Ű

Ü

Ý

Ţ

ß

Ex

ŕ

á

â

ă

ä

ĺ

ć

ç

č

é

ę

ë

ě

í

î

ď

Fx

đ

ń

ň

ó

ô

ő

ö

÷

ř

ů

ú

ű

ü

ý

ţ

˙

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