ISO_8859-2(7)

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💖 ISO_8859-2 💖

okay bestie, so this page lives in the Miscellaneous Information Manual and it's literally the whole entire lore on iso_8859-2 — aka the ISO/IEC 8859-2 character set, written out in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal. no cap, it's all here. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

iso_8859-2 — ISO/IEC 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the ISO/IEC 8859 standard is a whole girlboss family of 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (which also goes by its government name, ISO/IEC 646-IRV, iykyk). And ISO/IEC 8859-2? She encodes the Latin characters used in many Central and East European languages. main character energy fr fr 💅

🌈 ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets

the full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets includes, and yes we're listing all of them because we don't gatekeep:

ISO/IEC 8859-1 — West European languages (Latin-1)
ISO/IEC 8859-2 — Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
ISO/IEC 8859-3 — Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
ISO/IEC 8859-4 — Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
ISO/IEC 8859-5 — Latin/Cyrillic
ISO/IEC 8859-6 — Latin/Arabic
ISO/IEC 8859-7 — Latin/Greek
ISO/IEC 8859-8 — Latin/Hebrew
ISO/IEC 8859-9 — Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
ISO/IEC 8859-10 — Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
ISO/IEC 8859-11 — Latin/Thai
ISO/IEC 8859-13 — Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
ISO/IEC 8859-14 — Celtic (Latin-8)
ISO/IEC 8859-15 — West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO/IEC 8859-16 — Romanian (Latin-10)

it's giving a whole squad. obsessed. 👑

💜 ISO/IEC 8859-2 characters

bestie here's the table you actually came for 💖 the following table displays the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-2 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page. so if you were like "where's my Ą" — baby, she's right here:

Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
241   161   A1     Ą     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242   162   A2     ˘     BREVE
243   163   A3     Ł     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
244   164   A4     ¤     CURRENCY SIGN
245   165   A5     Ľ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
246   166   A6     Ś     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
247   167   A7     §     SECTION SIGN
250   168   A8     ¨     DIAERESIS
251   169   A9     Š     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
252   170   AA     Ş     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
253   171   AB     Ť     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON
254   172   AC     Ź     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
256   174   AE     Ž     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
257   175   AF     Ż     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
260   176   B0     °     DEGREE SIGN
261   177   B1     ą     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
262   178   B2     ˛     OGONEK
263   179   B3     ł     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
264   180   B4     ´     ACUTE ACCENT
265   181   B5     ľ     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
266   182   B6     ś     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
267   183   B7     ˇ     CARON
270   184   B8     ¸     CEDILLA
271   185   B9     š     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
272   186   BA     ş     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
273   187   BB     ť     LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
274   188   BC     ź     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
275   189   BD     ˝     DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT
276   190   BE     ž     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
277   191   BF     ż     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
300   192   C0     Ŕ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
301   193   C1     Á     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302   194   C2     Â     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303   195   C3     Ă     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
304   196   C4     Ä     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305   197   C5     Ĺ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
306   198   C6     Ć     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
307   199   C7     Ç     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
310   200   C8     Č     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
311   201   C9     É     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312   202   CA     Ę     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
313   203   CB     Ë     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314   204   CC     Ě     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
315   205   CD     Í     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316   206   CE     Î     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317   207   CF     Ď     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
320   208   D0     Đ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321   209   D1     Ń     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
322   210   D2     Ň     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CARON
323   211   D3     Ó     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
324   212   D4     Ô     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325   213   D5     Ő     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
326   214   D6     Ö     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
327   215   D7     ×     MULTIPLICATION SIGN
330   216   D8     Ř     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON
331   217   D9     Ů     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
332   218   DA     Ú     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
333   219   DB     Ű     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
334   220   DC     Ü     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
335   221   DD     Ý     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
336   222   DE     Ţ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
337   223   DF     ß     LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340   224   E0     ŕ     LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
341   225   E1     á     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342   226   E2     â     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343   227   E3     ă     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
344   228   E4     ä     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
345   229   E5     ĺ     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
346   230   E6     ć     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
347   231   E7     ç     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350   232   E8     č     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351   233   E9     é     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352   234   EA     ę     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
353   235   EB     ë     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354   236   EC     ě     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
355   237   ED     í     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356   238   EE     î     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357   239   EF     ď     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
360   240   F0     đ     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361   241   F1     ń     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
362   242   F2     ň     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CARON
363   243   F3     ó     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
364   244   F4     ô     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365   245   F5     ő     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
366   246   F6     ö     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367   247   F7     ÷     DIVISION SIGN
370   248   F8     ř     LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
371   249   F9     ů     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
372   250   FA     ú     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
373   251   FB     ű     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
374   252   FC     ü     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
375   253   FD     ý     LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
376   254   FE     ţ     LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
377   255   FF     ˙     DOT ABOVE

like look at all those letters?? absolutely ate. 🔥

🫶 NOTES 🫶

lowkey important: ISO/IEC 8859-2 is also known as Latin-2. so if someone says Latin-2 and you're like ??? — same girl, different name. 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next bestie, they're all in the group chat: ascii(7), charsets(7), iso_8859-1(7), iso_8859-16(7), utf-8(7) 🌈

and that's the whole page, no notes 💅 this one came from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08 — shoutout to the Linux man-pages girlies for keeping us fed. now go forth and encode something Central and East European, bestie 🎀✨🦋

📦 where this page comes from

arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
📜 the page's license: GPL-2.0-or-later
💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on 2026-11-03: a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms