ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 14: Latin alphabet No. 8 (Celtic), is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998. It is informally referred to as Latin-8 or Celtic. It was designed to cover the Celtic languages, such as Irish and Welsh.

ISO-8859-14 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. CeltScript made an extension for Windows called Extended Latin-8. Microsoft has assigned code page 28604 a.k.a. Windows-28604 to ISO-8859-14.[better source needed] FreeDOS assigned code page 58163 to ISO-8859-14.

History

ISO-8859-14 was originally proposed for the Sami languages. ISO 8859-12 was proposed for Celtic. Later, ISO 8859-12 was proposed for Devanagari, so the Celtic proposal was changed to ISO 8859-14. The Sami proposal was changed to ISO 8859-15, but it got rejected as an ISO/IEC 8859 part, although it was registered as ISO-IR-197.

The original proposal used a different arrangement of points 0xA1–BF. At the committee draft stage of the specification, a dotless i was included at 0xAE, which was changed to a registered trademark sign (matching ISO-8859-1) in the final publication.

ISO-IR-182, an earlier (registered in 1994) modification of ISO-8859-1, had added the letters Ẁ, Ẃ, Ẅ, Ỳ, Ÿ, Ŵ, Ŷ and their lowercase forms (except for ÿ, which was already included) for Welsh language use. The final published version of ISO-8859-14 includes these letters in the same positions which they appear at in ISO-IR-182.

Code page layout

Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number below the character.

ISO/IEC 8859-14
0123456789ABCDEF
0x
1x
2xSP!"#$%&'()*+,-./
3x0123456789:;<=>?
4x@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
5xPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
6x`abcdefghijklmno
7xpqrstuvwxyz{|}~
8x
9x
AxNBSP1E021E03£Ċ010Aċ010B1E0A§1E80©1E821E0B1EF2SHY®Ÿ0178
Bx1E1E1E1FĠ0120ġ01211E401E411E561E811E571E831E601EF31E841E851E61
CxÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ
DxŴ0174ÑÒÓÔÕÖ1E6AØÙÚÛÜÝŶ0176ß
Exàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîï
Fxŵ0175ñòóôõö1E6Bøùúûüýŷ0177ÿ

Draft layout

The first draft had positions A0-BF different. It did not include the pilcrow sign, but included the cent sign instead at its Latin-1 position. Later, it was ruled that the pilcrow sign was more common, so the pilcrow sign remains at its Latin-1 position, and the cent sign was removed instead.

Differences from ISO-8859-14 have the Unicode code point below them.

ISO/IEC 8859-14 draft proposal changed rows only
0123456789ABCDEF
AxNBSP1E02¢00A2£1E03Ċ010Aċ010B§©1E60SHY®Ÿ
Bx1E0A1E0B1E1E1E1FĠ0120ġ01211E401E411E561E611E57

External links

  • Celtic Supplementary Latin Set (May 1, 1998, submitted by Irish body NSAI/AGITS/WG6)