ISO/IEC 8859-16
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ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001. The same encoding was defined as Romanian Standard SR 14111 in 1998, named the "Romanian Character Set for Information Interchange".[2] It is informally referred to as Latin-10 or South-Eastern European. It was designed to cover Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian and Slovenian, but also French, German, Italian and Irish Gaelic (new orthography).
MIME / IANA | ISO-8859-16 |
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Alias(es) | iso-ir-226, latin10, l10[1] |
Language(s) | Albanian, Gaj's Latin alphabet (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian), Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovene (also French, German, Italian, Irish) |
Standard | SR 14111:1998, ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001 |
Classification | ISO 8859 (extended ASCII, ISO 4873 level 1) |
Extends | US-ASCII |
Based on | ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2 |
ISO-8859-16 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28606 a.k.a. Windows-28606 to ISO-8859-16.[3]