ISO/IEC 8859-4 explained

ISO/IEC 8859-4
Mime:ISO-8859-4
Standard:ECMA-94

1986, ISO/IEC 8859

Alias:iso-ir-110, latin4, l4, csISOLatin4

ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4, 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-4 or North European. It was designed to cover Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, and Sámi. It has been largely superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-10 and Unicode. Microsoft has assigned code page 28594 a.k.a. Windows-28594 to ISO-8859-4 in Windows. IBM has assigned code page 914 (CCSID 914)[1] to ISO 8859-4.[2]

ISO-8859-4 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. ISO-IR 205 (called Code page 58258 by FreeDOS[3]) replaces the generic Currency Sign at 0xA4 with the Euro Sign.[4]

Codepage layout

Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point below them.

References

  1. Web site: CCSID 914 information document. https://web.archive.org/web/20141201225659/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid914.html. 2014-12-01.
  2. Web site: Code page 914 information document. https://web.archive.org/web/20160317081254/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp00914.html. 2016-03-17.
  3. Web site: Cpi/CPIISO/Codepage.TXT at master · FDOS/Cpi . .
  4. 205 . Supplementary set for Latin-4 alternative with EURO SIGN . ITS Information Technology Standardization . 1998-09-16.

External links

8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)

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