- adjust references - remove stray comments, streamline description (charsets(7) and Wikipedia provide more detailed and up-to-date description) - cosmetics --- man7/iso_8859-15.7 | 29 +++++++++-------------------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-15.7 b/man7/iso_8859-15.7 index 1175796..30cb655 100644 --- a/man7/iso_8859-15.7 +++ b/man7/iso_8859-15.7 @@ -24,27 +24,14 @@ .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" .TH ISO_8859-15 7 2014-02-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" -.nh .SH NAME iso_8859-15 \- ISO 8859-15 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. -However, it lacks the EURO symbol and does not fully -cover Finnish and French. -ISO 8859-15 is a modification of ISO 8859-1 -that covers these needs. -.P -ISO 8859-15 supports the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Breton, -Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, -Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, -Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, -Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish. +ISO 8859-15 encodes the +characters used in many West European languages and adds the Euro sign. .SS ISO 8859 alphabets The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes: .TS @@ -66,12 +53,10 @@ ISO 8859-15 West European languages (Latin-9) ISO 8859-16 Romanian (Latin-10) .TE .SS ISO 8859-15 characters -The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9), -which are printable and unlisted in the +The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-15, 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 8859-15. .TS l l l c lp-1. Oct Dec Hex Char Description @@ -173,6 +158,10 @@ _ 376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN 377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS .TE +.SH NOTES +ISO 8859-15 is also known as Latin-9 (or sometimes as Latin-0). .SH SEE ALSO .BR ascii (7), -.BR iso_8859-1 (7) +.BR charsets (7), +.BR iso_8859-1 (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
