ISO_8859-4(7)

๐Ÿ’– ISO_8859-4(7) โ€” Miscellaneous Information Manual ๐Ÿ’–

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about iso_8859-4 โ€” she's a whole character encoding and she serves. this is the manual page for the ISO/IEC 8859-4 character set, and yes we're doing octal, decimal AND hexadecimal because she's thorough like that. periodt. ๐Ÿ’…


โœจ NAME โœจ

iso_8859-4 โ€” the ISO/IEC 8859-4 character set, written out in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal, because one number system was simply not enough for her ๐Ÿ’–


๐ŸŒธ DESCRIPTION ๐ŸŒธ

so the tea is: the ISO/IEC 8859 standard is a whole family of 8-bit extensions bolted onto the ASCII character set (which also goes by the name ISO/IEC 646-IRV, iykyk). and ISO/IEC 8859-4 specifically? she's the one that encodes the characters used in Scandinavian and Baltic languages. she's giving nordic. she's giving baltic. she's giving โœจheritageโœจ.

๐ŸŽ€ ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets ๐ŸŽ€

the full squad of ISO/IEC 8859 alphabets, no one left out, we don't do that here:

  • 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) โ† that's our girl ๐Ÿ‘‘
  • 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)

๐Ÿฆ‹ ISO/IEC 8859-4 characters ๐Ÿฆ‹

here's the moment you've all been waiting for. this table shows every character in ISO/IEC 8859-4 that is printable and not already listed over in the ascii(7) manual page. so if you're looking for your basic letters, they're in ascii(7), not here. this is the exclusive extra content. ๐Ÿ“

Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
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240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
241   161   A1     ฤ„     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
242   162   A2     ฤธ     LATIN SMALL LETTER KRA (Greenlandic)
243   163   A3     ล–     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CEDILLA
244   164   A4     ยค     CURRENCY SIGN
245   165   A5     ฤจ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH TILDE
246   166   A6     ฤป     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CEDILLA
247   167   A7     ยง     SECTION SIGN
250   168   A8     ยจ     DIAERESIS
251   169   A9     ล      LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
252   170   AA     ฤ’     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH MACRON
253   171   AB     ฤข     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA
254   172   AC     ลฆ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH STROKE
255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
256   174   AE     ลฝ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
257   175   AF     ยฏ     MACRON
260   176   B0     ยฐ     DEGREE SIGN
261   177   B1     ฤ…     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
262   178   B2     ห›     OGONEK
263   179   B3     ล—     LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CEDILLA
264   180   B4     ยด     ACUTE ACCENT
265   181   B5     ฤฉ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH TILDE
266   182   B6     ฤผ     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CEDILLA
267   183   B7     ห‡     CARON
270   184   B8     ยธ     CEDILLA
271   185   B9     ลก     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
272   186   BA     ฤ“     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON
273   187   BB     ฤฃ     LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA
274   188   BC     ลง     LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH STROKE
275   189   BD     ลŠ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG
276   190   BE     ลพ     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
277   191   BF     ล‹     LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
300   192   C0     ฤ€     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
301   193   C1     ร     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
302   194   C2     ร‚     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
303   195   C3     รƒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
304   196   C4     ร„     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
305   197   C5     ร…     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
306   198   C6     ร†     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
307   199   C7     ฤฎ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH OGONEK
310   200   C8     ฤŒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
311   201   C9     ร‰     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
312   202   CA     ฤ˜     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
313   203   CB     ร‹     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
314   204   CC     ฤ–     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE
315   205   CD     ร     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
316   206   CE     รŽ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
317   207   CF     ฤช     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH MACRON
320   208   D0     ฤ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
321   209   D1     ล…     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CEDILLA
322   210   D2     ลŒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH MACRON
323   211   D3     ฤถ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH CEDILLA
324   212   D4     ร”     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
325   213   D5     ร•     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
326   214   D6     ร–     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
327   215   D7     ร—     MULTIPLICATION SIGN
330   216   D8     ร˜     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
331   217   D9     ลฒ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH OGONEK
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     ลจ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH TILDE
336   222   DE     ลช     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH MACRON
337   223   DF     รŸ     LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
340   224   E0     ฤ     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON
341   225   E1     รก     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
342   226   E2     รข     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
343   227   E3     รฃ     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
344   228   E4     รค     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
345   229   E5     รฅ     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
346   230   E6     รฆ     LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
347   231   E7     ฤฏ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH OGONEK
350   232   E8     ฤ     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351   233   E9     รฉ     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
352   234   EA     ฤ™     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
353   235   EB     รซ     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
354   236   EC     ฤ—     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE
355   237   ED     รญ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
356   238   EE     รฎ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
357   239   EF     ฤซ     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON
360   240   F0     ฤ‘     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
361   241   F1     ล†     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CEDILLA
362   242   F2     ล     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON
363   243   F3     ฤท     LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH CEDILLA
364   244   F4     รด     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
365   245   F5     รต     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
366   246   F6     รถ     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
367   247   F7     รท     DIVISION SIGN
370   248   F8     รธ     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
371   249   F9     ลณ     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH OGONEK
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     ลฉ     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE
376   254   FE     ลซ     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON
377   255   FF     ห™     DOT ABOVE

๐ŸŒˆ NOTES ๐ŸŒˆ

ISO/IEC 8859-4 is also known as Latin-4. that's her nickname. that's what the group chat calls her. ๐Ÿ’œ

๐Ÿ‘‘ SEE ALSO ๐Ÿ‘‘


and that's the whole page, bestie!! ๐Ÿซถ this one came straight out of Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08 โ€” so yeah, fresh, current, iconic. go forth and encode some Scandinavian and Baltic characters, you absolute legend. no cap. ๐Ÿ’–โœจ๐ŸŽ€๐Ÿฆ‹

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