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ISO_8859-2(7)             Linux Programmer's Manual            ISO_8859-2(7)

NAME         top

       iso_8859-2  - ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and
       hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION         top

       The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
       character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).  ISO 8859-2, the "Latin
       Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin
       characters and is implemented by several program vendors.

       ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
       Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
       Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian.

       Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
       transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.

ISO 8859 alphabets

       The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

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

ISO 8859-2 characters

       The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2),
       which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.  The
       fourth column will only show the proper glyphs in an environment
       configured for ISO 8859-2.

       Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
       ------------------------------------------------------------------
       240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
       241   161   A1     ,i     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
       242   162   A2     /c     BREVE
       243   163   A3     -L     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
       244   164   A4     ox     CURRENCY SIGN
       245   165   A5     =Y     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
       246   166   A6     |     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
       247   167   A7     S     SECTION SIGN
       250   168   A8     "     DIAERESIS
       251   169   A9    (C)    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
       252   170   AA     _a     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
       253   171   AB     <<    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON
       254   172   AC     ~     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
       255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
       256   174   AE    (R_)    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
       257   175   AF           LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
       260   176   B0     o     DEGREE SIGN

       261   177   B1     +-    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
       262   178   B2     2     OGONEK
       263   179   B3     3     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
       264   180   B4     '     ACUTE ACCENT
       265   181   B5     ,u     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
       266   182   B6     9|    LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
       267   183   B7     .     CARON
       270   184   B8     ,     CEDILLA
       271   185   B9     1     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
       272   186   BA     _o     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
       273   187   BB     >>    LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
       274   188   BC    1/4    LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
       275   189   BD    1/2    DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT
       276   190   BE    3/4    LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
       277   191   BF     'c     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
       300   192   C0     `A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
       301   193   C1     'A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
       302   194   C2     ^A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       303   195   C3     ~A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
       304   196   C4     "A     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
       305   197   C5     oA     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
       306   198   C6     AE    LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
       307   199   C7     ,C     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
       310   200   C8     `E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
       311   201   C9     'E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
       312   202   CA     ^E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
       313   203   CB     "E     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
       314   204   CC     `I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
       315   205   CD     'I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
       316   206   CE     ^I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       317   207   CF     "I     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
       320   208   D0     -D     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
       321   209   D1     ~N     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
       322   210   D2     `O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CARON
       323   211   D3     'O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
       324   212   D4     ^O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       325   213   D5     ~O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       326   214   D6     "O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
       327   215   D7     x     MULTIPLICATION SIGN
       330   216   D8     /O     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON
       331   217   D9     `U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
       332   218   DA     'U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
       333   219   DB     ^U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       334   220   DC     "U     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
       335   221   DD     'Y     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
       336   222   DE     Ib     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
       337   223   DF     B     LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
       340   224   E0     `a     LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE
       341   225   E1     'a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
       342   226   E2     ^a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       343   227   E3     ~a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
       344   228   E4     "a     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
       345   229   E5     oa     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH ACUTE
       346   230   E6     ae    LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
       347   231   E7     ,c     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
       350   232   E8     `e     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
       351   233   E9     'e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
       352   234   EA     ^e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
       353   235   EB     "e     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
       354   236   EC     `i     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
       355   237   ED     'i     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
       356   238   EE     ^i     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       357   239   EF     "i     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
       360   240   F0     `'o     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
       361   241   F1     ~n     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE

       362   242   F2     `o     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CARON
       363   243   F3     'o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
       364   244   F4     ^o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       365   245   F5     ~o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       366   246   F6     "o     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
       367   247   F7    -:-    DIVISION SIGN
       370   248   F8     /o     LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON
       371   249   F9     `u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RING ABOVE
       372   250   FA     'u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
       373   251   FB     ^u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       374   252   FC     "u     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
       375   253   FD     'y     LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
       376   254   FE     pb     LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
       377   255   FF     "y     DOT ABOVE

SEE ALSO         top

       ascii(7), iso_8859-1(7), iso_8859-16(7)

       ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources <http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/linux/cee
       /iso8859-2.html>.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.51 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux                            2012-08-05                    ISO_8859-2(7)

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