ISO/IEC 8859-15 - Coverage

Coverage

ISO 8859-15 encodes what it refers to as "Latin alphabet no. 9". This character set is used throughout The Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa. It is also commonly used in most standard romanizations of East-Asian languages.

Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following languages:

Modern languages with complete coverage of their alphabet
  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Breton
  • Catalan
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Faroese
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Galician
  • German
  • Icelandic
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Kurdish
  • Latin
  • Luxembourgish
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Occitan
  • Portuguese
  • Rhaeto-Romanic
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Scots
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Tagalog
  • Walloon
Notes

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