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ISO/IEC 8859-3

ISO/IEC 8859-3:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988. It is informally referred to as Latin-3 or South European. It was designed to cover Turkish, Maltese and Esperanto, though the introduction of ISO/IEC 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish. The encoding was popular for users of Esperanto, but fell out of use as application support for Unicode became more common.

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ISO/IEC 8859-3
MIME / IANAISO-8859-3
Alias(es)iso-ir-109, latin3, l3, csISOLatin31
LanguagesMaltese, Esperanto, Turkish, English, German
StandardECMA-94:1986, ISO/IEC 8859
Succeeded byISO/IEC 8859-9 (for Turkish use)

ISO/IEC 8859-3:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3,2 is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988. It is informally referred to as Latin-3 or South European. It was designed to cover Turkish, Maltese and Esperanto, though the introduction of ISO/IEC 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish. The encoding was popular for users of Esperanto, but fell out of use as application support for Unicode became more common.

ISO-8859-3 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28593 a.k.a. Windows-28593 to ISO-8859-3 in Windows. IBM has assigned code page 913 (CCSID 913) to ISO 8859-3.3

Code page layout

Differences from ISO-8859-1 are shown with their Unicode code point below.

ISO/IEC 8859-345678
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x  SP  ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
8x
9x
Ax NBSP Ħ
0126
 ˘
02D8
 £ ¤ Ĥ
0124
 § ¨ İ
0130
 Ş
015E
 Ğ
011E
 Ĵ
0134
 SHY Ż
017B
Bx ° ħ
0127
 ² ³ ´ µ ĥ
0125
 · ¸ ı
0131
 ş
015F
 ğ
011F
 ĵ
0135
 ½ ż
017C
Cx À Á Â Ä Ċ
010A
 Ĉ
0108
 Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Dx Ñ Ò Ó Ô Ġ
0120
 Ö × Ĝ
011C
 Ù Ú Û Ü Ŭ
016C
 Ŝ
015C
 ß
Ex à á â ä ċ
010B
 ĉ
0109
 ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
Fx ñ ò ó ô ġ
0121
 ö ÷ ĝ
011D
 ù ú û ü ŭ
016D
 ŝ
015D
 ˙
02D9
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Character Sets, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 2018-12-12
  2. ISO/IEC 8859-3:1999
  3. "CCSID 913 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-26.
  4. Standard ECMA-94: 8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)
  5. European Computer Manufacturers Association (February 1, 1986). Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.3 (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ. ISO-IR-109.
  6. Code Page CPGID 00913 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  7. Code Page CPGID 00913 (txt), IBM
  8. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-913_P100-2000.ucm, 2002-12-03