ASCII extended by Latin Alphabets

This charset is available in recode under the name Latin-1. In fact, it's true name is ISO_8859-1:1987 as per RFC 1345, accepted aliases being CP819, IBM819, ISO-8859-1, ISO_8859-1, iso-ir-100, l1 and Latin-1. The shortest way of specifying it in recode is l1.

This charset corresponds to the ISO Latin Alphabet 1. It is an eight-bit code which coincides with ASCII for the lower half.

This documentation used to include Latin-1 tables. They have been removed since recode can now recreate these (and a lot of others) easily:

recode -lf l1                   for commented ISO Latin-1
recode -ld l1                   for concise decimal table
recode -lo l1                   for concise octal table
recode -lh l1                   for concise hexadecimal table

The following from `lasko@video.dec.com' (Tim Lasko), with no date.

ISO Latin-1, or more completely ISO Latin Alphabet No 1, is now an international standard as of February 1987 (IS 8859, Part 1). For those American USEnet'rs that care, the 8-bit ASCII standard, which is essentially the same code, is going through the final administrative processes prior to publication.

ISO Latin-1 (IS 8859/1) is actually one of an entire family of eight-bit one-byte character sets, all having ASCII on the left hand side, and with varying repertoires on the right hand side:

1. Latin Alphabet No 1 (caters to Western Europe - now approved).
2. Latin Alphabet No 2 (caters to Eastern Europe - now approved).
3. Latin Alphabet No 3 (caters to SE Europe + others - in draft ballot).
4. Latin Alphabet No 4 (caters to Northern Europe - in draft ballot).
5. Latin-Cyrillic alphabet (right half all Cyrillic - processing currently suspended pending USSR input).
6. Latin-Arabic alphabet (right half all Arabic - now approved).
7. Latin-Greek alphabet (right half Greek + symbols - in draft ballot).
8. Latin-Hebrew alphabet (right half Hebrew + symbols - proposed).

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