ISO/IEC 8859-2
8-bit character set for Central and Eastern European languages in Latin script
ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology, 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2, PC Latin 2) which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions. Almost half the use of the encoding is for Polish, and it's the main legacy encoding for Polish, while virtually all use of it has been replaced by UTF-8 (on the web).
ISO-8859-2 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Less than 0.04% of all web pages use ISO-8859-2 as of October 2022. Microsoft has assigned code page 28592 a.k.a. Windows-28592 to ISO-8859-2 in Windows. IBM assigned code page 912 to ISO 8859-2, until that code page was extended in 1999. Code page 1111 is similar, but replaces byte B0 ° (degree sign) with U+02DA ˚ (ring above).
Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place).
01Language coverage
02Code page layout
Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number underneath.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x | ||||||||||||||||
| 1x | ||||||||||||||||
| 2x | SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 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 | NBSP | Ą0104 | ˘02D8 | Ł0141 | ¤ | Ľ013D | Ś015A | § | ¨ | Š0160 | Ş015E | Ť0164 | Ź0179 | SHY | Ž017D | Ż017B |
| Bx | ° | ą0105 | ˛02DB | ł0142 | ´ | ľ013E | ś015B | ˇ02C7 | ¸ | š0161 | ş015F | ť0165 | ź017A | ˝02DD | ž017E | ż017C |
| Cx | Ŕ0154 | Á | Â | Ă0102 | Ä | Ĺ0139 | Ć0106 | Ç | Č010C | É | Ę0118 | Ë | Ě011A | Í | Î | Ď010E |
| Dx | Đ0110 | Ń0143 | Ň0147 | Ó | Ô | Ő0150 | Ö | × | Ř0158 | Ů016E | Ú | Ű0170 | Ü | Ý | Ţ0162 | ß |
| Ex | ŕ0155 | á | â | ă0103 | ä | ĺ013A | ć0107 | ç | č010D | é | ę0119 | ë | ě011B | í | î | ď010F |
| Fx | đ0111 | ń0144 | ň0148 | ó | ô | ő0151 | ö | ÷ | ř0159 | ů016F | ú | ű0171 | ü | ý | ţ0163 | ˙02D9 |
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