- adjust references
- remove stray comments, streamline description
(charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed
and up-to-date description)
- cosmetics
---
man7/iso_8859-1.7 | 37 +++++++++++--------------------------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-1.7 b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
index 0a77a1a..d48819f 100644
--- a/man7/iso_8859-1.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
@@ -25,25 +25,14 @@
.\" Slightly rearranged, aeb, 950713
.\" Updated, dpo, 990531
.TH ISO_8859-1 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.nh
.SH NAME
iso_8859-1 \- ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
-Especially important is
-ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widely
-implemented and may already be seen as the de-facto standard ASCII
-replacement.
-.P
-ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque,
-Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician,
-German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish,
-Spanish, and Swedish.
-.P
-Note that the ISO 8859-1 characters are also the first 256 characters
-of ISO 10646 (Unicode).
+ISO 8859-1 encodes the
+characters used in many West European languages.
.SS ISO 8859 alphabets
The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:
.TS
@@ -65,14 +54,12 @@ ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9)
ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10)
.TE
.SS ISO 8859-1 characters
-The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1),
-which are printable and unlisted in the
+The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-1, which
+are printable and unlisted in the
.BR ascii (7)
manual page.
-.\" The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
-.\" in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
.TS
-l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
+l l l c lp-1.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
_
240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
@@ -88,7 +75,7 @@ _
252 170 AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
253 171 AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254 172 AC ¬ NOT SIGN
-255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line breaks) [1]
+255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN
256 174 AE ® REGISTERED SIGN
257 175 AF ¯ MACRON
260 176 B0 ° DEGREE SIGN
@@ -172,12 +159,10 @@ _
376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
.TE
-.IP [1] 4
-See
-.BR groff_char (7)
-(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
-paragraph 6.3.3)
-or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
+.SH NOTES
+ISO 8859-1 is also known as Latin-1.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ascii (7),
-.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
+.BR charsets (7),
+.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
+.BR utf-8 (7)
--
1.7.1
--
Marko Myllynen
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