# HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference

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## ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-1 is the default character in HTML 4.01.

ISO (The International Standards Organization) defines the standard character sets for different alphabets/languages.

The different variants of ISO-8859 are listed at the bottom of this page.

## ISO-8859-1 and ASCII

The first part of ISO-8859-1 (entity numbers from 0-127) is the original ASCII character-set. It contains numbers, upper and lowercase English letters, and some special characters.

For a closer look, please study our Complete ASCII Reference.

The codes from 128 to 159 are not in use in ISO-8859-1, but many browsers will display the characters from the ANSI (Windows-1252) character set instead of nothing.

For a closer look, please study our Complete ANSI Reference.

## ISO-8859-1 Symbols

The next part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 160-191) contains commonly used special characters.

Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
| &#160; | &nbsp; | non-breaking space
¡ | &#161; | &iexcl; | inverted exclamation mark
¢ | &#162; | &cent; | cent
£ | &#163; | &pound; | pound
¤ | &#164; | &curren; | currency
¥ | &#165; | &yen; | yen
¦ | &#166; | &brvbar; | broken vertical bar
§ | &#167; | &sect; | section
¨ | &#168; | &uml; | spacing diaeresis
© | &#169; | &copy; | copyright
ª | &#170; | &ordf; | feminine ordinal indicator
« | &#171; | &laquo; | angle quotation mark (left)
¬ | &#172; | &not; | negation
| &#173; | &shy; | soft hyphen
® | &#174; | &reg; | registered trademark
¯ | &#175; | &macr; | spacing macron
° | &#176; | &deg; | degree
± | &#177; | &plusmn; | plus-or-minus
² | &#178; | &sup2; | superscript 2
³ | &#179; | &sup3; | superscript 3
´ | &#180; | &acute; | spacing acute
µ | &#181; | &micro; | micro
¶ | &#182; | &para; | paragraph
· | &#183; | &middot; | middle dot
¸ | &#184; | &cedil; | spacing cedilla
¹ | &#185; | &sup1; | superscript 1
º | &#186; | &ordm; | masculine ordinal indicator
» | &#187; | &raquo; | angle quotation mark (right)
¼ | &#188; | &frac14; | fraction 1/4
½ | &#189; | &frac12; | fraction 1/2
¾ | &#190; | &frac34; | fraction 3/4
¿ | &#191; | &iquest; | inverted question mark

## ISO-8859-1 Characters

The higher part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 192-255, except 215 and 247) contains characters used in Western European countries.

Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
À | &#192; | &Agrave; | capital a, grave accent
Á | &#193; | &Aacute; | capital a, acute accent
Â | &#194; | &Acirc; | capital a, circumflex accent
Ã | &#195; | &Atilde; | capital a, tilde
Ä | &#196; | &Auml; | capital a, umlaut mark
Å | &#197; | &Aring; | capital a, ring
Æ | &#198; | &AElig; | capital ae
Ç | &#199; | &Ccedil; | capital c, cedilla
È | &#200; | &Egrave; | capital e, grave accent
É | &#201; | &Eacute; | capital e, acute accent
Ê | &#202; | &Ecirc; | capital e, circumflex accent
Ë | &#203; | &Euml; | capital e, umlaut mark
Ì | &#204; | &Igrave; | capital i, grave accent
Í | &#205; | &Iacute; | capital i, acute accent
Î | &#206; | &Icirc; | capital i, circumflex accent
Ï | &#207; | &Iuml; | capital i, umlaut mark
Ð | &#208; | &ETH; | capital eth, Icelandic
Ñ | &#209; | &Ntilde; | capital n, tilde
Ò | &#210; | &Ograve; | capital o, grave accent
Ó | &#211; | &Oacute; | capital o, acute accent
Ô | &#212; | &Ocirc; | capital o, circumflex accent
Õ | &#213; | &Otilde; | capital o, tilde
Ö | &#214; | &Ouml; | capital o, umlaut mark
× | &#215; | &times; | multiplication
Ø | &#216; | &Oslash; | capital o, slash
Ù | &#217; | &Ugrave; | capital u, grave accent
Ú | &#218; | &Uacute; | capital u, acute accent
Û | &#219; | &Ucirc; | capital u, circumflex accent
Ü | &#220; | &Uuml; | capital u, umlaut mark
Ý | &#221; | &Yacute; | capital y, acute accent
Þ | &#222; | &THORN; | capital THORN, Icelandic
ß | &#223; | &szlig; | small sharp s, German
à | &#224; | &agrave; | small a, grave accent
á | &#225; | &aacute; | small a, acute accent
â | &#226; | &acirc; | small a, circumflex accent
ã | &#227; | &atilde; | small a, tilde
ä | &#228; | &auml; | small a, umlaut mark
å | &#229; | &aring; | small a, ring
æ | &#230; | &aelig; | small ae
ç | &#231; | &ccedil; | small c, cedilla
è | &#232; | &egrave; | small e, grave accent
é | &#233; | &eacute; | small e, acute accent
ê | &#234; | &ecirc; | small e, circumflex accent
ë | &#235; | &euml; | small e, umlaut mark
ì | &#236; | &igrave; | small i, grave accent
í | &#237; | &iacute; | small i, acute accent
î | &#238; | &icirc; | small i, circumflex accent
ï | &#239; | &iuml; | small i, umlaut mark
ð | &#240; | &eth; | small eth, Icelandic
ñ | &#241; | &ntilde; | small n, tilde
ò | &#242; | &ograve; | small o, grave accent
ó | &#243; | &oacute; | small o, acute accent
ô | &#244; | &ocirc; | small o, circumflex accent
õ | &#245; | &otilde; | small o, tilde
ö | &#246; | &ouml; | small o, umlaut mark
÷ | &#247; | &divide; | division
ø | &#248; | &oslash; | small o, slash
ù | &#249; | &ugrave; | small u, grave accent
ú | &#250; | &uacute; | small u, acute accent
û | &#251; | &ucirc; | small u, circumflex accent
ü | &#252; | &uuml; | small u, umlaut mark
ý | &#253; | &yacute; | small y, acute accent
þ | &#254; | &thorn; | small thorn, Icelandic
ÿ | &#255; | &yuml; | small y, umlaut mark

## Variants of ISO-8859

Character set | Description | Covers
--- | --- | ---
ISO-8859-1 | Latin alphabet part 1 | North America, Western Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa
ISO-8859-2 | Latin alphabet part 2 | Eastern Europe
ISO-8859-3 | Latin alphabet part 3 | SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous others
ISO-8859-4 | Latin alphabet part 4 | Scandinavia/Baltics (and others not in ISO-8859-1)
ISO-8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic part 5 | The languages that are using a Cyrillic alphabet such as Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian and Macedonian
ISO-8859-6 | Latin/Arabic part 6 | The languages that are using the Arabic alphabet
ISO-8859-7 | Latin/Greek part 7 | The modern Greek language as well as mathematical symbols derived from the Greek
ISO-8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew part 8 | The languages that are using the Hebrew alphabet
ISO-8859-9 | Latin 5 part 9 | The Turkish language. Same as ISO-8859-1 except Turkish characters replace Icelandic ones
ISO-8859-10 | Latin 6 Lappish, Nordic, Eskimo | The Nordic languages
ISO-8859-15 | Latin 9 (aka Latin 0) | Similar to ISO-8859-1 but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some other missing characters
ISO-2022-JP | Latin/Japanese part 1 | The Japanese language
ISO-2022-JP-2 | Latin/Japanese part 2 | The Japanese language
ISO-2022-KR | Latin/Korean part 1 | The Korean language

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