ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. 2, consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script, each encoded as a single 8-bit code value.
These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following European languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (in Latin transcription), Serbocroatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian.
Unlike ISO 8859-1, it is also suitable for Finnish, but it has not been used in Finland. It may be argued that ISO 8859-2 is not really suitable for Romanian because of lack of letters s and t with commas below, containing s and t with cedillas instead. These letters were unified in the first versions of the Unicode standard, meaning that the appearance with cedilla or with comma was treated as a glyph choice rather than as separate characters; fonts intended for use with Romanian should, therefore, have characters with comma below at those code points.
| ISO/IEC 8859-2
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| x0
| x1
| x2
| x3
| x4
| x5
| x6
| x7
| x8
| x9
| xA
| xB
| xC
| xD
| xE
| xF
|
| 0x
| unused
|
| 1x
|
| 2x
| SP
| !
| "
| #
| $
| %
| &
| '
| (
| )
| *
| +
| ,
| -
| .
| /
|
| 3x
|
| 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
| unused
|
| 9x
|
| Ax
| NBSP
| Ą
| ˘
| Ł
| ¤
| Ľ
| Ś
| §
| ¨
| Š
| Ş
| Ť
| Ź
|
| Ž
| Ż
|
| Bx
| °
| ą
| ˛
| ł
| ´
| ľ
| ś
| ˇ
| ¸
| š
| ş
| ť
| ź
| ˝
| ž
| ż
|
| Cx
| Ŕ
| Á
| Â
| Ă
| Ä
| Ĺ
| Ć
| Ç
| Č
| É
| Ę
| Ë
| Ě
| Í
| Î
| Ď
|
| Dx
| Đ
| Ń
| Ň
| Ó
| Ô
| Ő
| Ö
| ×
| Ř
| Ů
| Ú
| Ű
| Ü
| Ý
| Ţ
| ß
|
| Ex
| ŕ
| á
| â
| ă
| ä
| ĺ
| ć
| ç
| č
| é
| ę
| ë
| ě
| í
| î
| ď
|
| Fx
| đ
| ń
| ň
| ó
| ô
| ő
| ö
| ÷
| ř
| ů
| ú
| ű
| ü
| ý
| ţ
| ˙
|
In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.
Code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-2.
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