Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

ISO 8859
     
         ("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://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28245)}.
     
        (2001-12-28)