ISO_8859-7(7)

✨ ISO_8859-7 ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're getting into the ISO_8859-7 manual page — that's the 7 in the whole ISO/IEC 8859 extended family 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iso_8859-7 — ISO/IEC 8859-7 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So the whole ISO/IEC 8859 standard is literally a bunch of 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (which also goes by the absolutely iconic name ISO/IEC 646-IRV). And ISO/IEC 8859-7? That one encodes the characters used in modern monotonic Greek 🇬🇷✨ periodt.

💅 ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets

Here's the full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets, the whole squad, no one left out:

• 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 👑 (this is the one, she's the main character of this page)
• 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)

🦋 ISO/IEC 8859-7 characters

Below is every character in ISO/IEC 8859-7 that's printable and not already listed in the ascii(7) manual page. Oct, Dec, Hex, Char, Description — the whole glow-up line by line 💜

Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
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240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
241   161   A1     ‘     LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
242   162   A2     ’     RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
243   163   A3     £     POUND SIGN
244   164   A4     €     EURO SIGN
245   165   A5     ₯     DRACHMA SIGN
246   166   A6     ¦     BROKEN BAR
247   167   A7     §     SECTION SIGN
250   168   A8     ¨     DIAERESIS
251   169   A9     ©     COPYRIGHT SIGN
252   170   AA     ͺ     GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
253   171   AB     «     LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254   172   AC     ¬     NOT SIGN
255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
257   175   AF     ―     HORIZONTAL BAR
260   176   B0     °     DEGREE SIGN
261   177   B1     ±     PLUS-MINUS SIGN
262   178   B2     ²     SUPERSCRIPT TWO
263   179   B3     ³     SUPERSCRIPT THREE
264   180   B4     ΄     GREEK TONOS
265   181   B5     ΅     GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS
266   182   B6     Ά     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
267   183   B7     ·     MIDDLE DOT
270   184   B8     Έ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS
271   185   B9     Ή     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS
272   186   BA     Ί     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
273   187   BB     »     RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274   188   BC     Ό     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS
275   189   BD     ½     VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
276   190   BE     Ύ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH TONOS
277   191   BF     Ώ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOS
300   192   C0     ΐ     GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH
                        DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
301   193   C1     Α     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
302   194   C2     Β     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER BETA
303   195   C3     Γ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
304   196   C4     Δ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
305   197   C5     Ε     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON
306   198   C6     Ζ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA
307   199   C7     Η     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA
310   200   C8     Θ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA
311   201   C9     Ι     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
312   202   CA     Κ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER KAPPA
313   203   CB     Λ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
314   204   CC     Μ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER MU
315   205   CD     Ν     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU
316   206   CE     Ξ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI
317   207   CF     Ο     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON
320   208   D0     Π     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI
321   209   D1     Ρ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO
323   211   D3     Σ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA
324   212   D4     Τ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU
325   213   D5     Υ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON
326   214   D6     Φ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PHI
327   215   D7     Χ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI
330   216   D8     Ψ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PSI
331   217   D9     Ω     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
332   218   DA     Ϊ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
333   219   DB     Ϋ     GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA
334   220   DC     ά     GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
335   221   DD     έ     GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS
336   222   DE     ή     GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS
337   223   DF     ί     GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
340   224   E0     ΰ     GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA
                        AND TONOS
341   225   E1     α     GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
342   226   E2     β     GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
343   227   E3     γ     GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA
344   228   E4     δ     GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA
345   229   E5     ε     GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON
346   230   E6     ζ     GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA
347   231   E7     η     GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA
350   232   E8     θ     GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA
351   233   E9     ι     GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
352   234   EA     κ     GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA
353   235   EB     λ     GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
354   236   EC     μ     GREEK SMALL LETTER MU
355   237   ED     ν     GREEK SMALL LETTER NU
356   238   EE     ξ     GREEK SMALL LETTER XI
357   239   EF     ο     GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON
360   240   F0     π     GREEK SMALL LETTER PI
361   241   F1     ρ     GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO
362   242   F2     ς     GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA
363   243   F3     σ     GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA
364   244   F4     τ     GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU
365   245   F5     υ     GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON
366   246   F6     φ     GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
367   247   F7     χ     GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI
370   248   F8     ψ     GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI
371   249   F9     ω     GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA
372   250   FA     ϊ     GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
373   251   FB     ϋ     GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA
374   252   FC     ό     GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS
375   253   FD     ύ     GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH TONOS
376   254   FE     ώ     GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOS

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🫶 NOTES 🫶

fun little lore drop: ISO/IEC 8859-7 was formerly known as ELOT-928 or ECMA-118:1986. she's got aliases, she's mysterious, we love that for her 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ascii(7)
• charsets(7)
• utf-8(7)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and encode your Greek 💖

sign-off tea ☕: this came from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, and the page itself is ISO_8859-7(7) — yes the header says ISO_8859-7(7) and the footer says ISO_8859-7(7), she's consistent, she's iconic, she ate 🎀✨