ISO/IEC 8859-16

ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001. The same encoding was defined as Romanian Standard SR 14111 in 1998, named the "Romanian Character Set for Information Interchange". It is informally referred to as Latin-10 or South-Eastern European. It was designed to cover Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian and Slovenian, but also French, German, Italian and Irish Gaelic (new orthography).

ISO-8859-16 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28606 a.k.a. Windows-28606 to ISO-8859-16.[better source needed] FreeDOS has assigned code page 65500 to ISO-8859-16.

Originally, ISO 8859-16 was proposed as a different encoding which was revised and renamed ISO 8859-0 by 1997, and is now ISO 8859-15 after a further revision.

It is based on ISO/IEC 8859-15 (Euro, Œ, Š, Ž, uppercase Ÿ) and partially on ISO/IEC 8859-2 (the Romanian-specific letters are placed according to it, but using S-comma and T-comma instead of cedilla).

Code page layout

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

External links

• - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10 (draft dated November 15, 1999; superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, published July 15, 2001)
• Romanian Character Set for Information Interchange (August 30, 1999, from Romanian Standard SR 14111:1998)