latin 1

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

ISO 8859
ISO 8859-1
ISO Latin 1
Latin 1

   <standard, character> ("ISO Latin 1") One of {ISO}'s 8-bit
   single-byte coded graphic {character sets} for European
   languages.

   Part 1 (full name: "ISO 8859-1:1987 Information processing --
   8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 1:
   Latin alphabet No. 1") is a common extension of, and
   replacement for, {ASCII}.

   Roman Czyborra's page (http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html).

   ISO catalogue
   
(http://iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28245).

   (2001-12-28)