ISO 8859 (standard, character) ISO/IEC's set of 8-bit 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. ISO shop. Last updated: 2001-12-28