ISO_8859-16(7)

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๐Ÿ’– ISO_8859-16(7) โ€” bestie, it's giving Latin-10 ๐Ÿ’–

okay so this lil page lives in the Miscellaneous Information Manual, section 7, and it's basically the cheat sheet for a whole character set. no cap, it's a bop. ๐Ÿฆ‹

โœจ NAME โœจ

iso_8859-16 โ€” the ISO/IEC 8859-16 character set, all laid out in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal like the good lord intended ๐Ÿ’…

๐ŸŒธ DESCRIPTION ๐ŸŒธ

So the tea is: the ISO/IEC 8859 standard is a whole family of 8-bit extensions to ASCII (and yes, ASCII also answers to ISO/IEC 646-IRV, because of course it has a government name ๐Ÿซถ). And the one we're here for, ISO/IEC 8859-16, encodes the Latin characters used in Southeast European languages. periodt.

๐ŸŒˆ ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets is literally this whole girl group:

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

like, imagine being 8859-12. you can't, because she's not on the list ๐Ÿ’€

๐ŸŽ€ ISO/IEC 8859-16 characters

These are all the characters in ISO/IEC 8859-16 that are printable and not already listed in the ascii(7) manual page. Everything below is a glow-up past plain ASCII, bestie โœจ

Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€
240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
241   161   A1     ฤ„     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242   162   A2     ฤ…     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
243   163   A3     ล     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
244   164   A4     โ‚ฌ     EURO SIGN
245   165   A5     โ€ž     DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
246   166   A6     ล      LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
247   167   A7     ยง     SECTION SIGN
250   168   A8     ลก     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
251   169   A9     ยฉ     COPYRIGHT SIGN
252   170   AA     ศ˜     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
253   171   AB     ยซ     LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254   172   AC     ลน     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
256   174   AE     ลบ     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
257   175   AF     ลป     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
260   176   B0     ยฐ     DEGREE SIGN
261   177   B1     ยฑ     PLUS-MINUS SIGN
262   178   B2     ฤŒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
263   179   B3     ล‚     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
264   180   B4     ลฝ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
265   181   B5     โ€     LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
266   182   B6     ยถ     PILCROW SIGN
267   183   B7     ยท     MIDDLE DOT
270   184   B8     ลพ     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
271   185   B9     ฤ     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
272   186   BA     ศ™     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
273   187   BB     ยป     RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
274   188   BC     ล’     LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
275   189   BD     ล“     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
276   190   BE     ลธ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
277   191   BF     ลผ     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
300   192   C0     ร€     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
301   193   C1     ร     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302   194   C2     ร‚     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303   195   C3     ฤ‚     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
304   196   C4     ร„     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305   197   C5     ฤ†     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
306   198   C6     ร†     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
307   199   C7     ร‡     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
310   200   C8     รˆ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
311   201   C9     ร‰     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312   202   CA     รŠ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
313   203   CB     ร‹     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314   204   CC     รŒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
315   205   CD     ร     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316   206   CE     รŽ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317   207   CF     ร     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
320   208   D0     ฤ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321   209   D1     ลƒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
322   210   D2     ร’     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
323   211   D3     ร“     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
324   212   D4     ร”     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325   213   D5     ล     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
326   214   D6     ร–     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
327   215   D7     ลš     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
330   216   D8     ลฐ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
331   217   D9     ร™     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
332   218   DA     รš     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
333   219   DB     ร›     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
334   220   DC     รœ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
335   221   DD     ฤ˜     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
336   222   DE     ศš     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
337   223   DF     รŸ     LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340   224   E0     ร      LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
341   225   E1     รก     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342   226   E2     รข     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343   227   E3     ฤƒ     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
344   228   E4     รค     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
345   229   E5     ฤ‡     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
346   230   E6     รฆ     LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
347   231   E7     รง     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350   232   E8     รจ     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
351   233   E9     รฉ     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352   234   EA     รช     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
353   235   EB     รซ     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354   236   EC     รฌ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
355   237   ED     รญ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356   238   EE     รฎ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357   239   EF     รฏ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
360   240   F0     ฤ‘     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361   241   F1     ล„     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
362   242   F2     รฒ     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
363   243   F3     รณ     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
364   244   F4     รด     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365   245   F5     ล‘     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
366   246   F6     รถ     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367   247   F7     ล›     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
370   248   F8     ลฑ     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
371   249   F9     รน     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
372   250   FA     รบ     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
373   251   FB     รป     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
374   252   FC     รผ     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
375   253   FD     ฤ™     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
376   254   FE     ศ›     LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
377   255   FF     รฟ     LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
ngl, A0 and AD are out here with an empty Char column and honestly? iconic behaviour. invisible queens. ๐Ÿ’€โœจ

๐Ÿ“ NOTES ๐Ÿ“

ISO/IEC 8859-16 also goes by Latin-10. two names, one slay ๐Ÿ’…

๐Ÿ‘€ SEE ALSO ๐Ÿ‘€

ascii(7), charsets(7), iso_8859-3(7), utf-8(7) โ€” go read those too, they're all in the group chat ๐Ÿซถ

๐Ÿ’– that's the whole page bestie, you ate. this came from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, and it's the ISO_8859-16(7) page. mwah. ๐Ÿ’‹๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿฆ‹

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