ISO8859 family
ISO8859 is a family of single-byte encodings based on and compatible with other ISO, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and European Computer Manufacturer's Association (ECMA) code extension techniques. The ISO8859 encoding defines a family of code sets with each member containing its own unique character sets. The 7-bit ASCII code set is a proper subset of each of the code sets in the ISO8859 family.
While the ASCII code set defines an order for the English alphabet, the Graphic Right (GR) characters are not ordered according to any specific language. The locale defines the language-specific ordering.
Each code set includes the ASCII character set plus its own unique character set. The ISO8859 encoding figure shows the ISO8859 general encoding scheme.
| Character Encoding | Code Point | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 000xxxxx | 00–1F | Controls | 32 |
| 00100000 | 20 | Space | 1 |
| 0xxxxxxx | 21–7E | 7-bit | 94 |
| 01111111 | 7F | Delete | 1 |
| 100xxxxx | 80–9F | Controls | 32 |
| 10100000 | A0 | No-break Space | 1 |
| 1xxxxxxx | A1–F | 8-bit | 96 |