- adjust references - remove stray comments, streamline description (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed and up-to-date description) - cosmetics --- man7/iso_8859-2.7 | 29 +++++++++-------------------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-2.7 b/man7/iso_8859-2.7 index fa71433..3e04456 100644 --- a/man7/iso_8859-2.7 +++ b/man7/iso_8859-2.7 @@ -26,23 +26,14 @@ .\" Slightly rearranged, aeb, 950713 .\" Updated, dpo, 990531 .TH ISO_8859-2 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" -.nh .SH NAME iso_8859-2 \- ISO 8859-2 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). -ISO 8859-2, the "Latin -Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin -characters and is implemented by several program vendors. -.P -ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian, -Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, -Slovak, Slovenian, and Sorbian. -.P -Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one -transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian. +ISO 8859-2 encodes the +Latin characters used in many Central and East European languages. .SS ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: .TS @@ -64,12 +55,10 @@ ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9) ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10) .TE .SS ISO 8859-2 characters -The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), -which are printable and unlisted in the +The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2, 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 8859-2. .TS l l l c lp-1. Oct Dec Hex Char Description @@ -171,11 +160,11 @@ _ 376 254 FE ţ LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA 377 255 FF ˙ DOT ABOVE .TE +.SH NOTES +ISO 8859-2 is also known as Latin-2. .SH SEE ALSO .BR ascii (7), +.BR charsets (7), .BR iso_8859-1 (7), -.BR iso_8859-16 (7) - -.I ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources -.UR http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si\:/linux\:/cee\:/iso8859-2.html -.UE . +.BR iso_8859-16 (7), +.BR utf-8 (7) -- 1.7.1 -- Marko Myllynen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
