A single byte character set in the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII standard character encodings, including the Euro currency symbol and a few other replacements.
ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ascii-based standard character-encodings, first edition published in 1999. It is informally referred to as Latin-9 (and was for a while called Latin-0).
It is similar to iso-8859-1, and thus generally intended for “Western European” languages, but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some letters that were now deemed missing in part 1 for the target use.
ISO-8859-15 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO-6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28605 aka Windows-28605 to ISO-8859-15.
There were attempts to make ISO-8859-15 the default character set for 8-bit communication, but it was never able to supplant the popular ISO-8859-1. However, it did see some use as a character set for terminal or textual programs under Linux when the Euro sign was needed, but the use of full utf-8 (Unicode) was not practical. All the printable characters from both ISO/IEC 8859-1 and ISO/IEC 8859-15 are also found in windows-1252.
Changes from ISO-8859-1
Position 0xA4 0xA6 0xA8 0xB4 0xB8 0xBC 0xBD 0xBE
8859-1 ¤ ¦ ¨ ´ ¸ ¼ ½ ¾
8859-15 € Š š Ž ž Œ œ Ÿ
