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==windows-1252==
Why does windows-1252 redirect to this page?  1252 is NOT the same as iso-8859-1.
Redirecting references to windows-1252 to this page (I think) reinforces the
mistaken impression that 1252 and 8859-1 are the same (and they are most
definitely not).  Perhaps this deserves an entire page, but Microsoft's
loose labeling of email with (close but not exact) MIME character sets is a BIG problem.
:You're free to make the relevant section a (linked) article of its own. The section however tries to make it clear that although both, CP1252 and Latin-1, are supersets of ISO/IEC 8859-1, they differ in 8x and 9x area. The [[:de:ISO 8859-1#Windows-1252|German version]] takes a little different approach in emphasizing the differences.

::The advantage of keeping CP-1252 and MacRoman on the ISO-8859-1 page is that differences can be made more clear. And Windows (and IIS) misreports CP-1252 as ISO-8859-1 by default, so most people falsely assume CP-1252 *is* ISO-8859-1. Latin-1 of course is a valid implementation of ISO 8859-1, as it is nothing but an alias for ISO-8859-1. [[User:Darkelf|Jo]][[User talk:Darkelf|'''r''']] 13:24, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

:::''Latin-1 of course is a valid implementation of ISO 8859-1, as it is nothing but an alias for ISO-8859-1.'' '''Wrong.''' ISO/IEC 8859-1 (the standard) only specifies the characters for the 20-7E and A0-FF byte ranges. The characters for bytes 00-1F and 7F-9F are left undefined. The ISO-8859-1 character map registered with the IANA fills the missing spots with the C0 and C1 control sets (defined elsewhere), thus covering 00-FF. This map's approved aliases are: ISO_8859-1:1987, iso-ir-100, ISO_8859-1, ISO-8859-1 (preferred MIME name), latin1, l1, IBM819, CP819, and csISOLatin1. - [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 22:07, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

::::So remove the dash. Latin1 *is* a valid alias for ISO-8859-1, which is an encoding based on ISO 8859-1. [[User:Darkelf|Jo]][[User talk:Darkelf|'''r''']] 22:17, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

:::::like it or not in the internet world now ISO-8859-1 is always interpreted as windows-1252. stuff from windows-1252 was being used by editors here with no reported problems all the time before the switch to utf-8. Sometimes you just have to accept that formal standards and reality aren't the same thing. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 6 July 2005 10:53 (UTC)

"However, the draft HTML 5 specification requires that documents advertised as ISO-8859-1 actually be parsed with the Windows-1252 encoding."
The citation does not make any indication of whether or not this statement is true. [[Special:Contributions/194.232.128.102|194.232.128.102]] ([[User talk:194.232.128.102|talk]]) 14:47, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
:The current HTML5 draft does mention it insection 8.2.2.2 . Of course these things are subject to change at any time. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] ([[User talk:Plugwash|talk]]) 17:07, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
:More than a year on, the current HTML5 draft still does not mention it. I feel it is unlikely to change back. As it stands this sentence has been promoting wrong information to everyone who did not check the references for over a year. I recommend removing or at least rewording this sentence to show that it is no longer true. [[User:Greatrsg|Greatrsg]] ([[User talk:Greatrsg|talk]]) 09:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

== correct quotation marks ==

In this respect ISO-8859-1 was't worse than a typewriter, or am I mistaken? So, only special characters for typesetting are missing from ISO--8859-1 (also ligatures, like ff, fi, ...). [[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 23:02, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
:You're not making yourself very clear, please elaborate. --[[User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason| ]] [[User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/|Ævar]] [[User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/|Arnfjörð]] [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason|action=edit&section=new}} Bjarmason] [[User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/| ]] 23:42, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)

As far as I know, mechanical or electrical typewriters, didn't provide symbols for typesetting either. They are or were lacking the different quotation marks, different length (typographic) hyphens, ligated versions of "ff" etc. Not that it would make much sense on a monospacing machine. Only the specialised input machines for typesettings did have all those.

So, when setting coded character sets for use on computers, I don't think that the lack of those signs can be viewed as not supporting  any languages which would use these signs in typesetting. Typesetting was done using specialised markup, shortcuts or automatic conversion (as done by [[troff]]). 

Even today, [[Unicode]] considers some typesetting related issues to be out of scope for coded character sets, a step back from the Adobe approach, which even did put some "ff" ligatures in the "Expert Character Set".

In summary, I consider the remark "missing correct quotation marks" to be slightly misleading.

[[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 12:51, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:In German (and I believe [[Quotation mark#Table|other languages]] as well) it is considered an orthographic error to use something like "speech" instead of &bdquo;speech&ldquo;, although »speech«, of which Latin1 is capable, can be acceptable, too. Width of dashes/hyphens and interword/intercharacter spaces is a different story completely. [[User:Crissov|Crissov]] 18:40, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

::No it is considered bad typography. In handwriting or as typoscript, it is perfectly acceptable. -- [[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 19:35, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:::Especially in handwritten German it is not acceptable, ask any German teacher or the Duden. You could compare it to ")foo)" or "(foo(", which no-one would claim correct. It can only be acceptable in technically limited environments. In English "foo" and &ldquo;foo&rdquo; are propably similar enough.

::::The Duden is no authority on glyph shapes. Using the " as glyph shape for both punctation characters 'german begin of direct speak' and 'german end of direct speak' is no othographic error, at least not in Hamburg, Germany. Likewise the Duden doesn't regulate the glyph shapes for small "s" and "t", where there is much variation in German handwriting. [[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 18:16, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

== Mac-Roman ==

Is it really best to remove the comparative chart between Mac-Roman and ISO-8859-1? Is it really true that Mac-Roman has no relation to ISO 8859-1 or ISO-8859-1? Also, there appears to be hyphenation differences throughout this page (e.g. MacRoman vs. Mac-Roman, CP1252 vs. CP-1252, etc.). ''[[User:GPHemsley|GPHemsley]]→[[User talk:GPHemsley|&#9674;]] 00:50, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)''

: The Macintosh Roman character sets, ''Mac-Roman'' and ''MacRoman'', both inherit the ASCII characters, but have nothing else in common with ISO-8859-1.  Mac-Roman was introduced with the first Mac in 1984, so I don't think it could possibly be a descendent of ISO Latin.  MacRoman changed one character from Mac-Roman (added the Euro).  I'll update the confusing text in this article.  ''&mdash;[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2005-03-29&nbsp;01:30&nbsp;Z</small>''

::iirc they do however cover much the same characters which should probablly be mentioned and possiblly detailed somewhere.

==lead section==
the previous lead section was a one liner far shorter than [[Wikipedia:Guide_to_writing_better_articles#Lead_section]] reccomends. Futhermore it didn't even introduce two important variations (iso-8859-1 and windows-1252) which redirect here. I tried to expand it and was reverted by mjb (whose removals i have noe reverted back. mjb claimed it was redundant which is true but [[Wikipedia:Guide_to_writing_better_articles#Lead_section]] clearly states "If the article is long (more than one page), the remainder of the opening paragraph should summarize it." a summary is by definition redundant with the more detailed information in the rest of the article. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 6 July 2005 10:15 (UTC)

:But your "summary" was terrible. It introduced concepts and dove into technical details that are not required to achieve a basic understanding of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 standard. I'm not saying the article can't use another sentence in the intro, but if you re-read the article from the beginning, it sounds very sloppy when you immediately start talking about there being no control codes and certain code value ranges being reserved/unassigned &mdash; these topics were not even introduced yet and seem completely out of context at that point. I would also disagree with taking too strict an interpretation of the style guide; an intro paragraph does not need to summarize ''every'' topic that is mentioned in the article; if it can't introduce a topic without repeating or requiring one to read the whole article, then further simplification of the statements is advisable. &mdash; [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 6 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)

ISO-8859-1 and windows-1252 redirect here and are not just misspellings so they need to be introduced in the summary. If we don't do so then we are misleading users into thinking there are the same thing as ISO 8859-1. If you can think of a way of doing so without mentioning technical details then go for it. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 6 July 2005 11:14 (UTC)

:Ah, see, that's the real issue; there are these redirects, and there is discussion in the article about these oft-confused character maps that are based on the standard. We can offer the reader this information without getting into any details that would require them to have already read the article. I've put one in, but perhaps it could be further improved. &mdash; [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 6 July 2005 11:29 (UTC)

On another topic, do you have an opinion about "maintained by ISO and IEC"? I think it sounds awkward to say "ISO and IEC" rather than "the ISO and the IEC," but it seems equally awkward to put two "the"s in there. Is there a policy or style guide for using definite articles with organizations known by their initials? (The main point I was trying to make in the first sentence was that for a while, the standard was just "ISO 8859-1" and this is what everyone knows it as, but at some point the IEC became involved and any formal citation, especially an encyclopedia entry that has a responsibility not to perpetuate common errors, must say "ISO/IEC 8859-1".) &mdash; [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 6 July 2005 11:34 (UTC)

== Character table format ==

I've been seeing more and more 8-bit character table formats popping up in various articles. There are currently three different styles in use on this page alone. [[ASCII]] has two more, and [[Code page 437]] has yet another. I think the template-based approach in the [[Code page 437]] article is a good idea, but I'm not sure it's flexible enough to accommodate the kind of ad-hoc linking we have going on. Also, the auto-scaled 100% table widths are not ideal for all media. Other issues to consider are where to link each character to, and how much info to try to cram into each cell. We are discussing character linking over on [[Talk:Unicode]]. Questions to consider are below. &mdash; [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 6 July 2005 12:02 (UTC)

* Should we standardize the 8-bit character code chart formats?
* What info should the charts contain?
* What should the charts look like? Are column/row headings important?
* Where should character entries link to? (see [[Talk:Unicode#Nifty_resource.]])
* What's the ideal representation of things like space, soft hyphen, and control codes?
* What about difference highlighting? Keep?
* Can we achieve these goals with a template?
:my preffered way to handle character linking is to just let the character link to a page titled with itself and then redirect it to the most appropriate place. This allows all references to a character to be updated to point to the same place at once as well as allowing users to enter those characters through the search box and be taken straight to the appropriate place. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 6 July 2005 22:54 (UTC)
: Well, we could use templates, but I'm not sure the approach in [[Code page 437]] is the best. There [[Template:chset-cell]] is used, which looks like this:
:* <code><nowiki><span style="font-size: large; font-family: serif">&#x{{{1}}};</span><br /><small>{{{1}}}</small></nowiki></code>
: Those hexdecimal character references are infact converted to UTF-8 by the Wikimedia software.
: Furthermore it uses [[Template:chset-tableformat]], [[Template:chset-left]], [[Template:chset-ctrl]] and all are put into a table by hand. We could do the same and better with something like [[Template:8-bit charset]], which would look be used something like this:
:* <code><nowiki>{{8-bit charset|Name=ISO 8859-1|{{C0 control codes}}|{{ASCII character codes}}|7F|{{C1 control codes}}| A0|A1|A2|A3|A4|A5|A6|A7|A8|A9|AA|AB|AC|AD|AE|AF| B0|B1|B2|B3|B4|B5|B6|B7|B8|B9|BA|BB|BC|BD|BE|BF| C0|C1|C2|C3|C4|C5|C6|C7|C8|C9|CA|CB|CC|CD|CE|CF| D0|D1|D2|D3|D4|D5|D6|D7|D8|D9|DA|DB|DC|DD|DE|DF| E0|E1|E2|E3|E4|E5|E6|E7|E8|E9|EA|EB|EC|ED|EE|EF| F0|F1|F2|F3|F4|F5|F6|F7|F8|F9|FA|FB|FC|FD|FE|FF}}</nowiki></code>
: where the templates contain just the hexcodes, e.g. [[Template:C0 control codes]] ([[Control character#Tables]]):
:* <code>00|01|02|03|04|05|06|07|08|09|0A|0B|0C|0D|0E|0F| 10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|1A|1B|1C|1D|1E|1F</code>
: Oh, I just realized that we would have to take special care of control codes (and a few others), because they do not work with links and display, maybe:
:* <code>NUL|SOH|STX|ETX|EOT|ENQ|ACK|BEL|BS|HT|LF|VT|FF|CR|SO|SI| DLE|DC1|DC2|DC3|DC4|NAK|SYN|ETB|CAN|EM|SUB|ESC|FS|GS|RS|US</code>
: I think giving alternatives with &amp;124; does not work (well) in templates. Anyhow, the ''8-bit charset'' template would then build a 16×16 table out of the 256+1 arguments it recieved, <nowiki>{{{Name}}}</nowiki> would be put into the caption (<code>|+</code>). How that table should look (hex, dec, oct and/or bin headers, U+ codes [probably by reusing [[Template:chset-cell]]]) is open to discussion, but all those codepage and charset tables would look the same. The then unnecessary ''chset-*'' templates should be deleted. [[User:Crissov|Christoph Päper]] 7 July 2005 15:46 (UTC)

== History of CP1252 ==

I'm having a hard time finding what year Microsoft introduced code page 1252. I'm particularly interested in MS's support for the curved apostrophe and quotation marks ‘ ’ “ ”. The best I could find so far was "around 1986". &mdash; [[User:Hippietrail|Hippietrail]] 01:41, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
:my guess is it came in with the windows concept of ansi code pages. I don't know how far back that dates though (p.s. i notice that whatever font is used for standard wikipedia text doesn't seem to differentiate between the opening and closing quotes but the font i see in the edit box does). [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 02:09, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
:Minor point of interest is that the IANA did not accept Windows-1252 in its charset registry until early 2000, based on a proposal made in December 1999. The other Windows-125x code pages were accepted by the IANA in 1996 after being proposed by someone at Microsoft's Russian branch. &mdash; [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 03:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
::And windows-874 still isn't in the IANAs list despite being actively used by at least outlook 2000, i pointed this out to the iana-charsets list but they didn't seem to care. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 08:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

== Merge request ==

Someone tagged the article with a merge request. They apparently did not realize that this article forked off of the [[ISO/IEC 8859-1]] article a while ago. Please present a case for the merge or the request will be removed. &mdash; [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 03:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

:it was part of a mass split done a while back by a fairly new user that created a LOT of small ugly stubs. i've linked all the merge tags to a proposal at the main ISO 8859 talk page. Please comment there if you don't wan't me to go ahead with the mass re-merging. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 17:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

::These should NOT be remerged. They are (were) separate for a reason: ISO/IEC 8859-n is in no case identical to ISO-8859-n (when both exist, which is not always the case). These entries should be split again, with appropriate cross-references. [[User:Keka|Keka]] (who happens to have been involved with character set standarisation for many years), 2006-04-23.

:::True in a sense but you could say the same about say jpeg and jfif. One is the formal standard left incomplete by standards body politics. The other is the equivilent real standard in use. Also in most cases the IANA defines ISO_8859-? the same as ISO-8859-? and an underscore is the standard substitute for a space where space can't be used. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 15:54, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

==  Related character maps- link to a disambiguation page ==

In the table in the section "Related character maps", at position (-4, 8-) in the table, the table links to the disambiguation page for index (It says "IND"). This shouldn't happen. However, I have abolutely no idea what kind of index it's referring to, so I didn't change it. Could somebody who knows more about this please change it to link to the specific type of index that it refers to? [[User:E946|E946]] 04:59, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== The two pipe symbols ==

In the character chart, both the character | (value 7C) and the character ¦ (value A6) linked to the article about [[Pipe_(computing)]]; but as far as I can see, that article only talks about the character | (7C).

I have changed both links to [[Vertical bar]], which I believe gives more relevant information.
--[[User:Oz1cz|Oz1cz]] 14:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

==Line Feed / Newline==
Why is there no encoding for "line feed / new line" in this standard? How does that work?
[[User:83.118.38.37|83.118.38.37]] 09:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

== ISO 8859-1 vs. UTF-8 ==

I think someone of knowledge in this field should write a section with that name.

OK, the background: I installed a server software distro ([[Apache2Triad]]) and everything was working just fine and so I copied some folder with webpages in it I had on another server ([[XAMPP]]) and to my shock and appallment this thing was displaying letters with diacritics like all those crappy sites from 1990's, that I've noticed are not even capable of displaying apostrophes on pages in English.
And I've noticed a coincidence of pages not being able to display apostrophes (nor any diacritics) and the page having a charset like ISO 123456 or something (instead of UTF-8) in its HEAD section.

And yeah, when I changed the line specifying ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8 (in the httpd.conf file) I got all my diacritics (namely, Latvian) and nothing appears to have been broken.

So, basically, why would anyone need a charset like this when there's UTF-8, what are the inclusion criteria for languages (lol), it's not that I would have any issues with a charset not displaying Latvian diacritics, but there are [[caron]]s (š) in Czech, for instance, and [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]]s (ā) in Japanese [[rōmaji]] script, and those are like legit languages (not to mention the apostrophes) so, basically, the article seriously lacks some rationale section as to why would anyone use this encoding.
[[User:354d|354d]] 22:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the article ISO/IEC 8859 might answer your concerns! Theo [[User:194.222.199.109|194.222.199.109]] 17:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

i believe in the standard of no standardization  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.121.199.103|24.121.199.103]] ([[User talk:24.121.199.103|talk]]) 20:15, 7 April 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== ISO-8859-1 table ==

This page is about ISO/IEC 8859-1. I think the single character table on this page should '''not''' represent the ISO-8859-1 printable character and control character set. [[Special:Contributions/92.78.138.134|92.78.138.134]] ([[User talk:92.78.138.134|talk]]) 20:27, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

:Most of the other pages about character encodings show the control characters. I copied the comment off of one of them. However a few such as [[ISO-8859-3]] show gray for the control characters. In any case there certainly should not be two tables, which is what was here before. Most casual readers would never figure out that the only difference is that the gray cells are switched to control characters and would be looking for differences in the letters![[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 20:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

:: Yes, all pages should show the control characters of the encoding they are representing. My point is that ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 has no control characters. So this surplus in information is wrong on the one hand and misleading on the other. It adds to the confusion around ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Windows Codepage 1252 and ISO-8859-1. There is no benefit in catering to "casual readers" who never look at those tables anyway.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/88.75.191.146|88.75.191.146]] ([[User talk:88.75.191.146|talk]]) 17:25, 5 October 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

::: It would seem that the correct approach is to show the actual characters of the character set being presented, and to leave all other code points blank (gray). So for this particular article, no control codes should be shown in the table. But in addition, there should be some mention of (and link to) the ISO control codes that the character set is generally used with. Interested readers can then click through to get more specific details about the "complete" character set code points as it is typically implemented. — [[User:Loadmaster|Loadmaster]] ([[User talk:Loadmaster|talk]]) 15:05, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

::::Link is at the top as [[C0 and C1 controls]][[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 19:53, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it is a good thing to have an article about ISO-8859-1 and not have a table which would show all the characters in it. As I take it, right now I'm supposed to look at the table for ISO 8859-1, then read that ISO-8859-1 has more characters, then head to another article and figure out how that characters fit into this table. Very convenient. [[User:HotXRock|HotXRock]] ([[User talk:HotXRock|talk]]) 19:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

:I did that originally but there seems to be a consensus that the description of the ISO character sets should not show the control characters. It is also true that in most use the majority of those values are not interpreted in any way by any definition of the assigned control characters, except for CR, LF, and perhaps TAB. All others tend to render representations or get interpreted as [[CP1252]].[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 00:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

::Okay, if this article is not the place for ISO-8859-1, where should it be described then? [[Windows-1252]] has a different set of control characters, and it is definitely less appropriate for describing ISO-8859-1. By the way, [[Windows-1252]] lists differences from ISO-8859-1, but currently ISO-8859-1 doesn't have a corresponding table anywhere on Wikipedia to compare with. Should we create a separate article for ISO-8859-1 then? [[User:HotXRock|HotXRock]] ([[User talk:HotXRock|talk]]) 10:43, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

:::I suppose it's a choice between creating a section in this article to discuss ISO-8859-1 and its differences from ISO/IEC&nbsp;8859-1, or creating an entirely separate article for it. I lean towards the former choice, since it's probably the most expected for users searching for either term and who probably don't know there is a difference between the two. — [[User:Loadmaster|Loadmaster]] ([[User talk:Loadmaster|talk]]) 19:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

::::This article "discusses the differences" several times. It says that ISO-8859-1 is this table with the addition of the [[C0 and C1 controls]], and if you follow that link there is (several) tables of the control characters.
::::I did in fact try to make the table have the control characters but this idea was rejected. I do NOT want to see a return to the redundant two tables, which leads any novices to believe that some of the letters themselves are different and makes the whole subject look more complex than it is.[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 23:14, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

== Hexadecimal character codes ==

I removed the use of a "0x" prefix on hexadecimal character codes, because it appears that typically in these character set articles the decimal values are predominantly used, and when hexadecimal values are used they are labeled as such (e.g., "hex 80"). The use of the "0x" prefix is ''not'' universally recognized as implying ''hexaecimal'', in spite of widespread use of C-like programming languages. In ISO and RFC documents for character sets, in fact, either decimal only is used (e.g., "128"), or a "row/column" notation (e.g., "8/0") is used. — [[User:Loadmaster|Loadmaster]] ([[User talk:Loadmaster|talk]]) 04:40, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

== Dutch language support ==

The explanation on Dutch language support is utter nonsense. The very existence of the mentioned Ĳ/ĳ as separate symbol is barely even known to Dutch-speaking people. The symbol doesn't even appear on Dutch or Belgian keyboards. As far as I can see, ISO/IEC 8859-1 supports the Dutch language completely.  <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Nyerguds|Nyerguds]] ([[User talk:Nyerguds|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Nyerguds|contribs]]) 07:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:It was taught to us as a separate symbol in primary school. We called it de lange ij. We all type it as I + J but we also all know that this isn't perfect and that software's ability to convert it into the proper glyph can leave a lot to be desired.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/82.139.87.39|82.139.87.39]] ([[User talk:82.139.87.39|talk]]) 23:42, 27 January 2012 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:The same goes for Czech (and Slovak) [[Ch (digraph)|ch]]. It ''is'' one character for purposes of sorting for example (between H and I), but it is written by two letters. [[User:Ceplm|Ceplm]] ([[User talk:Ceplm|talk]]) 14:41, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::You can't even see the difference between ĳ and ij. You have to select it to see the difference, and you barely save memory if you use it. Maybe there are some fonts in which ij would look better as a separate symbol, but otherwise it's useless. [[Special:Contributions/80.101.107.21|80.101.107.21]] ([[User talk:80.101.107.21|talk]]) 16:03, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
:::Whether it saves memory or looks better is completely beside the point. There is a world of difference between what we commonly type and what would be "correct" if computers only supported it. Example: Today most people use a single "-" to mean either figure dash, en dash, em dash and so on, because all that ASCII / ISO-8859 supports is "-". That doesn't make it "right", and I seriously doubt a typographic system like TeX would drop "all those useless dashes" any time soon. -- [[User:DevSolar|DevSolar]] ([[User talk:DevSolar|talk]]) 10:03, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
:As a dutch person, I concur for OP. We're only taught to write the 'lange ij' in one space for writing in '[[Block_letters|blokletters]]', and as mentioned, because it sometimes looks better. The latter can also be argued by the ligature ﬁ which looks better than fi when looked close-up in times-new-roman-style fonts, yet I've only seen real typesetting software (like LaTeX) actually converting fi to ﬁ when printing/exporting. The ligature ĳ is only of historical interest and for vertical writing. The only places I encounter it in daily life is where it's incorporated in logos or markings which are vector-designed (like http://www.jacktummers.nl/wp-content/uploads/200907/lijnbus.jpg or http://www.wingene.be/_STUDIOEMMA_WWW/uploads/Image/DuurzaamheidGisEnMobiliteit/DeLijn_kleur_logo.jpg). Furthermore we have many other digraphs/[[Diphthong|Diphthongues]], (ou, ei, ie, oe, ui, au) and they aren't written with a ligature or in a single space, because, what do you know, it just happens those can't be placed inside each other. --[[User:Zom-B|Zom-B]] ([[User talk:Zom-B|talk]]) 10:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

== English (UK and US) ==

Why do we need to mention UK and US in parentheses in the list of supported languages? Even though some spellings do differ, there are no symbols unique to any of the two. IMHO it could be interesting to note that symbols adopted by smaller communities, such as the character é for say latté, or the character ö for say coöperation (as used by [[The New Yorker]]) are supported. [[User:Elpincha|elpincha]] ([[User talk:Elpincha|talk]]) 21:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
:Yes there are differences, primarily the '£' symbol, which is not in [[ASCII|7-bit ASCII]] nor on a [[British and American keyboards|US keyboard]]. It is on a [[British and American keyboards|UK keyboard]]. This is why ASCII is not adequate for UK English usage, you need ISO8859-1, Windows 1252 etc.
:There are also some imported words which have retained their accents, at least in British English, for example [[Café]]. There are also some other cases, such as the famous [[Brontë family|Brontë sisters]]. [[User:TiffaF|TiffaF]] ([[User talk:TiffaF|talk]]) 16:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

== Ǿ/ǿ vs Ø/ø ==
I've been Danish all my life, but I've never heard of any usage of an accented Ø (except, ''maaaybe'', for [[Metal_umlaut|rockdots]]). Can anyone give ''any'' such example? If not, I propose to remove that note from the page. [[User:JanGB|JanGB]] ([[User talk:JanGB|talk]]) 13:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

As another dane, yes that letter is not used (or at least extremely uncommon) in Danish...  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/193.106.166.70|193.106.166.70]] ([[User talk:193.106.166.70#top|talk]]) 21:57, 29 January 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Polish language support ==

It looks like the article doesn't mention Polish language: not in the section on fully supported languages, and not in the section on languages with partial support.[[Special:Contributions/165.225.72.120|165.225.72.120]] ([[User talk:165.225.72.120|talk]]) 11:18, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

== Romanian language support / work-arounds ==

I don't know Romanian very well so I won't edit it, but a work-around for ș (S-comma) is "sh" in ASCII and a work-around for ț (T-comma) is "ts" in ASCII. The Romanians I know live in an English-speaking country, and this is a very English-influenced work-around, so it may be horrific inside Romania, I don't know. [[User:Fluoborate|Fluoborate]] ([[User talk:Fluoborate|talk]]) 11:26, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

== Wrong Color in chset-color-intl - F6 ==


Page " '''ISO/IEC_8859-1''' "

Hi,
i am sorry for my bad english language skills.
 
The colors shown for F6 is not
the same in the chart and the legend box
because that is a typo in Color Code string, i think.

"FFEFAF" (Colored Square) is used when with "Graphic character" and i read
it wrong when moving to the Chart through misleading, maybe it's is a failure.


Cya  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/93.82.108.221|93.82.108.221]] ([[User talk:93.82.108.221#top|talk]]) 10:16, 6 July 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Proposed new format for character set tables ==

{| {{chset-table2|ISO/IEC 8859-1}}
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 0_
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 1_
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 2_
| title="U+0020: SPACE (alias SP)" style="font-size:small" | [[Space character|SP]]
| title="U+0021: EXCLAMATION MARK" | [[!]]
| title="U+0022: QUOTATION MARK" | [[&quot;]]
| title="U+0023: NUMBER SIGN" | [[Number sign|#]]
| title="U+0024: DOLLAR SIGN" | [[$]]
| title="U+0025: PERCENT SIGN" | [[%]]
| title="U+0026: AMPERSAND" | [[&]]
| title="U+0027: APOSTROPHE" | [[']]
| title="U+0028: LEFT PARENTHESIS" | [[(]]
| title="U+0029: RIGHT PARENTHESIS" | [[)]]
| title="U+002A: ASTERISK" | [[*]]
| title="U+002B: PLUS SIGN" | [[+]]
| title="U+002C: COMMA" | [[,]]
| title="U+002D: HYPHEN-MINUS" | [[-]]
| title="U+002E: FULL STOP" | [[Full stop|.]]
| title="U+002F: SOLIDUS" | [[Slash (punctuation)|/]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 3_
| title="U+0030: DIGIT ZERO" | [[0]]
| title="U+0031: DIGIT ONE" | [[1]]
| title="U+0032: DIGIT TWO" | [[2]]
| title="U+0033: DIGIT THREE" | [[3]]
| title="U+0034: DIGIT FOUR" | [[4]]
| title="U+0035: DIGIT FIVE" | [[5]]
| title="U+0036: DIGIT SIX" | [[6]]
| title="U+0037: DIGIT SEVEN" | [[7]]
| title="U+0038: DIGIT EIGHT" | [[8]]
| title="U+0039: DIGIT NINE" | [[9]]
| title="U+003A: COLON" | [[Colon (punctuation)|:]]
| title="U+003B: SEMICOLON" | [[;]]
| title="U+003C: LESS-THAN SIGN" | [[Less-than sign|<]]
| title="U+003D: EQUALS SIGN" | [[=]]
| title="U+003E: GREATER-THAN SIGN" | [[Greater-than sign|>]]
| title="U+003F: QUESTION MARK" | [[?]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 4_
| title="U+0040: COMMERCIAL AT" | [[@]]
| title="U+0041: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A" | [[A]]
| title="U+0042: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B" | [[B]]
| title="U+0043: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C" | [[C]]
| title="U+0044: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D" | [[D]]
| title="U+0045: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E" | [[E]]
| title="U+0046: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F" | [[F]]
| title="U+0047: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G" | [[G]]
| title="U+0048: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H" | [[H]]
| title="U+0049: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I" | [[I]]
| title="U+004A: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J" | [[J]]
| title="U+004B: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K" | [[K]]
| title="U+004C: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L" | [[L]]
| title="U+004D: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M" | [[M]]
| title="U+004E: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N" | [[N]]
| title="U+004F: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O" | [[O]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 5_
| title="U+0050: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P" | [[P]]
| title="U+0051: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q" | [[Q]]
| title="U+0052: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R" | [[R]]
| title="U+0053: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S" | [[S]]
| title="U+0054: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T" | [[T]]
| title="U+0055: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U" | [[U]]
| title="U+0056: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V" | [[V]]
| title="U+0057: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W" | [[W]]
| title="U+0058: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X" | [[X]]
| title="U+0059: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y" | [[Y]]
| title="U+005A: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z" | [[Z]]
| title="U+005B: LEFT SQUARE BRACKET" | [[Left square bracket|&#x5B;]]
| title="U+005C: REVERSE SOLIDUS" | [[Backslash|&#x5C;]]
| title="U+005D: RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET" | [[Right square bracket|&#x5D;]]
| title="U+005E: CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT" | [[^]]
| title="U+005F: LOW LINE" | [[Underscore|_]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 6_
| title="U+0060: GRAVE ACCENT" | [[`]]
| title="U+0061: LATIN SMALL LETTER A" | [[a]]
| title="U+0062: LATIN SMALL LETTER B" | [[b]]
| title="U+0063: LATIN SMALL LETTER C" | [[c]]
| title="U+0064: LATIN SMALL LETTER D" | [[d]]
| title="U+0065: LATIN SMALL LETTER E" | [[e]]
| title="U+0066: LATIN SMALL LETTER F" | [[f]]
| title="U+0067: LATIN SMALL LETTER G" | [[g]]
| title="U+0068: LATIN SMALL LETTER H" | [[h]]
| title="U+0069: LATIN SMALL LETTER I" | [[i]]
| title="U+006A: LATIN SMALL LETTER J" | [[j]]
| title="U+006B: LATIN SMALL LETTER K" | [[k]]
| title="U+006C: LATIN SMALL LETTER L" | [[l]]
| title="U+006D: LATIN SMALL LETTER M" | [[m]]
| title="U+006E: LATIN SMALL LETTER N" | [[n]]
| title="U+006F: LATIN SMALL LETTER O" | [[o]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 7_
| title="U+0070: LATIN SMALL LETTER P" | [[p]]
| title="U+0071: LATIN SMALL LETTER Q" | [[q]]
| title="U+0072: LATIN SMALL LETTER R" | [[r]]
| title="U+0073: LATIN SMALL LETTER S" | [[s]]
| title="U+0074: LATIN SMALL LETTER T" | [[t]]
| title="U+0075: LATIN SMALL LETTER U" | [[u]]
| title="U+0076: LATIN SMALL LETTER V" | [[v]]
| title="U+0077: LATIN SMALL LETTER W" | [[w]]
| title="U+0078: LATIN SMALL LETTER X" | [[x]]
| title="U+0079: LATIN SMALL LETTER Y" | [[y]]
| title="U+007A: LATIN SMALL LETTER Z" | [[z]]
| title="U+007B: LEFT CURLY BRACKET" | [[Left curly bracket|&#x7B;]]
| title="U+007C: VERTICAL LINE" | [[Vertical bar|&#x7C;]]
| title="U+007D: RIGHT CURLY BRACKET" | [[Right curly bracket|&#x7D;]]
| title="U+007E: TILDE" | [[~]]
| style="background:#DDD" |
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 8_
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | 9_
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
| style="background:#DDD" |
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | A_
| title="U+00A0: NO-BREAK SPACE (alias NBSP)" style="font-size:.55em" | [[NBSP]]
| title="U+00A1: INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK" | [[&#x00A1;]]
| title="U+00A2: CENT SIGN" | [[&#x00A2;]]
| title="U+00A3: POUND SIGN" | [[&#x00A3;]]
| title="U+00A4: CURRENCY SIGN" | [[&#x00A4;]]
| title="U+00A5: YEN SIGN" | [[&#x00A5;]]
| title="U+00A6: BROKEN BAR" | [[&#x00A6;]]
| title="U+00A7: SECTION SIGN" | [[&#x00A7;]]
| title="U+00A8: DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00A8;]]
| title="U+00A9: COPYRIGHT SIGN" | [[&#x00A9;]]
| title="U+00AA: FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR" | [[&#x00AA;]]
| title="U+00AB: LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK" | [[&#x00AB;]]
| title="U+00AC: NOT SIGN" | [[&#x00AC;]]
| title="U+00AD: SOFT HYPHEN (alias SHY)" style="font-size:small" | [[soft hyphen|SHY]]
| title="U+00AE: REGISTERED SIGN" | [[&#x00AE;]]
| title="U+00AF: MACRON" | [[&#x00AF;]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | B_
| title="U+00B0: DEGREE SIGN" | [[&#x00B0;]]
| title="U+00B1: PLUS-MINUS SIGN" | [[&#x00B1;]]
| title="U+00B2: SUPERSCRIPT TWO" | [[superscript|&#x00B2;]]
| title="U+00B3: SUPERSCRIPT THREE" | [[superscript|&#x00B3;]]
| title="U+00B4: ACUTE ACCENT" | [[&#x00B4;]]
| title="U+00B5: MICRO SIGN" | [[&#x00B5;]]
| title="U+00B6: PILCROW SIGN" | [[&#x00B6;]]
| title="U+00B7: MIDDLE DOT" | [[&#x00B7;]]
| title="U+00B8: CEDILLA" | [[&#x00B8;]]
| title="U+00B9: SUPERSCRIPT ONE" | [[superscript|&#x00B9;]]
| title="U+00BA: MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR" | [[&#x00BA;]]
| title="U+00BB: RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK" | [[&#x00BB;]]
| title="U+00BC: VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER" | [[Fraction (mathematics)#Typographical variations|&#x00BC;]]
| title="U+00BD: VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF" | [[&#x00BD;]]
| title="U+00BE: VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS" | [[Fraction (mathematics)#Typographical variations|&#x00BE;]]
| title="U+00BF: INVERTED QUESTION MARK" | [[&#x00BF;]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | C_
| title="U+00C0: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00C0;]]
| title="U+00C1: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00C1;]]
| title="U+00C2: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00C2;]]
| title="U+00C3: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE" | [[&#x00C3;]]
| title="U+00C4: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00C4;]]
| title="U+00C5: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE" | [[&#x00C5;]]
| title="U+00C6: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE" | [[&#x00C6;]]
| title="U+00C7: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA" | [[&#x00C7;]]
| title="U+00C8: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00C8;]]
| title="U+00C9: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00C9;]]
| title="U+00CA: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00CA;]]
| title="U+00CB: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00CB;]]
| title="U+00CC: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00CC;]]
| title="U+00CD: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00CD;]]
| title="U+00CE: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00CE;]]
| title="U+00CF: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00CF;]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | D_
| title="U+00D0: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH" | [[&#x00D0;]]
| title="U+00D1: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE" | [[&#x00D1;]]
| title="U+00D2: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00D2;]]
| title="U+00D3: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00D3;]]
| title="U+00D4: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00D4;]]
| title="U+00D5: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE" | [[&#x00D5;]]
| title="U+00D6: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00D6;]]
| title="U+00D7: MULTIPLICATION SIGN" style="background:#ABC" | [[&#x00D7;]]
| title="U+00D8: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE" | [[&#x00D8;]]
| title="U+00D9: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00D9;]]
| title="U+00DA: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00DA;]]
| title="U+00DB: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00DB;]]
| title="U+00DC: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00DC;]]
| title="U+00DD: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00DD;]]
| title="U+00DE: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN" | [[&#x00DE;]]
| title="U+00DF: LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S" | [[&#x00DF;]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | E_
| title="U+00E0: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00E0;]]
| title="U+00E1: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00E1;]]
| title="U+00E2: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00E2;]]
| title="U+00E3: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE" | [[&#x00E3;]]
| title="U+00E4: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00E4;]]
| title="U+00E5: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE" | [[&#x00E5;]]
| title="U+00E6: LATIN SMALL LETTER AE" | [[&#x00E6;]]
| title="U+00E7: LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA" | [[&#x00E7;]]
| title="U+00E8: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00E8;]]
| title="U+00E9: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00E9;]]
| title="U+00EA: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00EA;]]
| title="U+00EB: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00EB;]]
| title="U+00EC: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00EC;]]
| title="U+00ED: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00ED;]]
| title="U+00EE: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00EE;]]
| title="U+00EF: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00EF;]]
|-
| style="background:#F8F8F8;height:2em;font-size:small" | F_
| title="U+00F0: LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH" | [[&#x00F0;]]
| title="U+00F1: LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE" | [[&#x00F1;]]
| title="U+00F2: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00F2;]]
| title="U+00F3: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00F3;]]
| title="U+00F4: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00F4;]]
| title="U+00F5: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE" | [[&#x00F5;]]
| title="U+00F6: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00F6;]]
| title="U+00F7: DIVISION SIGN" style="background:#ABC" | [[&#x00F7;]]
| title="U+00F8: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE" | [[&#x00F8;]]
| title="U+00F9: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE" | [[&#x00F9;]]
| title="U+00FA: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00FA;]]
| title="U+00FB: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX" | [[&#x00FB;]]
| title="U+00FC: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00FC;]]
| title="U+00FD: LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE" | [[&#x00FD;]]
| title="U+00FE: LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN" | [[&#x00FE;]]
| title="U+00FF: LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS" | [[&#x00FF;]]
|}

{{legend4|#DDD|Unassigned, replaced with C0/C1 control codes in ISO-8859-1}}
{{legend4|#ABC|The codepoints 215 (0xD7) and 247 (0xF7) were still undefined in the first release of ECMA-94 (1985)}}

This was reverted by [[User:Matthiaspaul]] with the following comment: "Good faith, but per Talk:ASCII changed to back to established table formatI: Standard layout (used almost everywhere else as well), color grouping, indication of variances, more and directly readable codes (no tooltips, which don't show at all over here, and would require a mouse anyway))"

IMHO his objections have no merit:

* Standard layout (used almost everywhere else as well): incorrect, this is based on the tables used for the Unicode Code Blocks, which are used many more times in Wikipedia. Also I intended to change *all* the uses of the current tables, thus this format would becomd the "standard layout".

* Color grouping: My number one priority was to eliminate this hideous coloring which is also incorrect for all non-ASCII characters! Besides being ugly, they make it impossible to use colors to indicate interesting characters, thus requiring boxes which are ambiguous and only allow one set of interesting characters.

* More codes: that "code" is the decimal number of the table entry, and people have continuously mangled these tables to change it to the decimal version of the Unicode code point, or vice-versa to mangle the Unicode code point. Removing this, and putting "U+" in front of the code points, should help a lot with removing this confusion. And it is stupid to waste so much space on what really amounts to a hex->decimal conversion table.

* Directly readable codes: this one is true but it means the Unicode name of the character is not available. Also the lack of the U+ prefix is leading to many people misreading the table and/or doing destructive edits to "fix" it. I also suspect the interest in the Unicode code point number is being vastly over-estimated.

I also made the following in an attempt to address his concerns, though I think preservation of the color and the Unicode code point still make it pretty hideous and would prefer the above design. The main change here is to change letters from green to white, to use actual Unicode categories for the colors, and to eliminate the decimal number, add U+ to the code point, and remove the 100% width:

{| class="chset nounderlines nowrap" border="1" frame="box" style="text-align: center; font-family: monospace; border-collapse: collapse"
|+<span style="font-family: sans">ASCII (1977/1986)</span>
|- style="background:#EEE"
!style="width:1.6em;height:1.6em" |
|style="width:3.4em" | _0
|style="width:3.4em" | _1
|style="width:3.4em" | _2
|style="width:3.4em" | _3
|style="width:3.4em" | _4
|style="width:3.4em" | _5
|style="width:3.4em" | _6
|style="width:3.4em" | _7
|style="width:3.4em" | _8
|style="width:3.4em" | _9
|style="width:3.4em" | _A
|style="width:3.4em" | _B
|style="width:3.4em" | _C
|style="width:3.4em" | _D
|style="width:3.4em" | _E
|style="width:3.4em" | _F
|-
! style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 0_
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0000|{{sc2|[[Null character|NUL]]}}}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0001|{{sc2|[[Start of heading|SOH]]}}}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0002|[[Start of text|{{sc2|STX}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0003|[[End of text|{{sc2|ETX}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0004|[[End of transmission character|{{sc2|EOT}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0005|[[Enquiry character|{{sc2|ENQ}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0006|[[Acknowledge character|{{sc2|ACK}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0007|[[Bell character|{{sc2|BEL}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0008|[[Backspace|{{sc2|BS}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0009|[[Horizontal tabulation|{{sc2|HT}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+000A|[[Line feed|{{sc2|LF}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+000B|[[Vertical tabulation|{{sc2|VT}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+000C|[[Form feed|{{sc2|FF}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+000D|[[Carriage return|{{sc2|CR}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+000E|[[Shift out|{{sc2|SO}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+000F|[[Shift in|{{sc2|SI}}]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 1_
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0010|[[Data link escape|{{sc2|DLE}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0011|[[Device Control 1|{{sc2|DC1}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0012|[[Device Control 2|{{sc2|DC2}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0013|[[Device Control 3|{{sc2|DC3}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0014|[[Device Control 4|{{sc2|DC4}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0015|[[Negative acknowledge character|{{sc2|NAK}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0016|[[Synchronous idle|{{sc2|SYN}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0017|[[End of transmission block|{{sc2|ETB}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0018|[[Cancel character|{{sc2|CAN}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0019|[[End of medium|{{sc2|EM}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+001A|[[Substitute character|{{sc2|SUB}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+001B|[[Escape character|{{sc2|ESC}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+001C|[[File separator|{{sc2|FS}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+001D|[[Group separator|{{sc2|GS}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+001E|[[Record separator|{{sc2|RS}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+001F|[[Unit separator|{{sc2|US}}]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 2_
|{{chset-color-ctrl}}|{{chset-cell|U+0020|[[Space character|{{sc2|SP}}]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0021|[[Exclamation mark|!]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0022|[[Quotation mark|&quot;]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0023|[[Number sign|#]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph}}|{{chset-cell|U+0024|[[Dollar sign|$]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0025|[[Percent sign|%]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0026|[[Ampersand|&]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0027|[[Apostrophe|']]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0028|[[Left parenthesis|(]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0029|[[Right parenthesis|)]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+002A|[[Asterisk|*]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph}}|{{chset-cell|U+002B|[[Plus sign|+]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+002C|[[Comma (punctuation)|,]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+002D|[[Hyphen-minus|-]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+002E|[[Full stop|.]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+002F|[[Slash (punctuation)|/]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 3_
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0030|[[0]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0031|[[1]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0032|[[2]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0033|[[3]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0034|[[4]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0035|[[5]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0036|[[6]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0037|[[7]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0038|[[8]]}}
|{{chset-color-digit}}|{{chset-cell|U+0039|[[9]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+003A|[[Colon (punctuation)|:]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+003B|[[Semicolon|;]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph}}|{{chset-cell|U+003C|[[Less-than sign|&lt;]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph}}|{{chset-cell|U+003D|[[Equal sign|=]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph}}|{{chset-cell|U+003E|[[Greater-than sign|>]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+003F|[[Question mark|?]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 4_
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+0040|[[@]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0041|[[A]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0042|[[B]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0043|[[C]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0044|[[D]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0045|[[E]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0046|[[F]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0047|[[G]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0048|[[H]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0049|[[I]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+004A|[[J]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+004B|[[K]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+004C|[[L]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+004D|[[M]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+004E|[[N]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+004F|[[O]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 5_
|{{chset-cell|U+0050|[[P]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0051|[[Q]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0052|[[R]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0053|[[S]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0054|[[T]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0055|[[U]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0056|[[V]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0057|[[W]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0058|[[X]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0059|[[Y]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+005A|[[Z]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+005B|[[Left square bracket|&#x5B;]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+005C|[[Backslash|&#x5C;]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+005D|[[Right square bracket|&#x5D;]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+005E|[[Caret|^]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+005F|[[Underscore|_]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 6_
|{{chset-color-graph-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+0060|[[Grave accent|`]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0061|[[a]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0062|[[b]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0063|[[c]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0064|[[d]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0065|[[e]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0066|[[f]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0067|[[g]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0068|[[h]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0069|[[i]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+006A|[[j]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+006B|[[k]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+006C|[[l]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+006D|[[m]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+006E|[[n]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+006F|[[o]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 7_
|{{chset-cell|U+0070|[[p]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0071|[[q]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0072|[[r]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0073|[[s]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0074|[[t]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0075|[[u]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0076|[[v]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0077|[[w]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0078|[[x]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+0079|[[y]]}}
|{{chset-cell|U+007A|[[z]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+007B|[[Left curly bracket|&#x7B;]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+007C|[[Vertical bar|&#x7C;]]}}
|{{chset-color-punct}}|{{chset-cell|U+007D|[[Right curly bracket|&#x7D;]]}}
|{{chset-color-graph-box}}|{{chset-cell|U+007E|[[~]]}}
|{{chset-color-ctrl}} |{{chset-cell|U+007F|[[Delete character|{{sc2|DEL}}]]}}
|-
!style="height:4em;background:#EEE" | 8_
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|{{chset-color-undef}}|
|}
{{legend inline||Letter}}
{{legend inline|#F7E7FF|Number}}
{{legend inline|#DFF7FF|Punctuation}}
{{legend inline|#FFEFAF|Symbol}}
{{legend inline|#FFFFEF|[[unicode character property#General Category|Other]]}}
{{legend inline|#D0D0D0|undefined}}

Would very much appreciate any comments from anybody else about this.

Thank you.
[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 17:42, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Okay it appears that tables inserted into the talk do not get any responses, as I left this version here for 1.5 months with no comments, so assumed it was ok, and started making some rather massive changes to every table, which unfortuinately were not only mechanical as I wanted to fix the many examples where widths or layout were wonky. Changes again got reverted by [[User:Matthiaspaul]] with the rather questionable claim that the answer to 16*y+x is "vital" information. In any case it looks like the only way to get discussion is to edit the page itself. So I am editing it again with a series of changes of potential fixes. Please give some constructive criticism here. If "information has been deleted" please exactly say what that information is, perhaps saying what character you are talking about, and putting the information that was removed into the comment. Thank you.[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 21:18, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
:On one extreme we have plaintext charts, like this:
<pre> !"#$%&'()*+,-./
0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
`abcdefghijklmno
pqrstuvwxyz{|}~ 
€ ‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹Œ Ž 
 ‘’“”•–—˜™š›œ žŸ
 ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬-®¯
°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ
ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîï
ðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ</pre>
All invalid characters are space. Not sure what to do with soft hyphen, the above chart replaces it with a regular minus sign. While proper text editors like Notepad will treat soft hyphen like plaintext, the same is not true in modern browsers. Plaintext charts would probably result in a ban by Matthiaspaul when inserted, but the advantage is that it can be copied to text editors for personal use. It's not really a suggestion, I mentioned it here so that people can learn about it. [[Special:Contributions/2A01:119F:21D:7900:E56A:6E91:A341:16E1|2A01:119F:21D:7900:E56A:6E91:A341:16E1]] ([[User talk:2A01:119F:21D:7900:E56A:6E91:A341:16E1|talk]]) 17:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
:In my opinion, the colorcode is not that useful, but the Unicode codes can be helpful obviously. Should it be in the character chart, a separate chart or the <nowiki><!-- --></nowiki> comments in the page? [[Special:Contributions/2A01:119F:21D:7900:E56A:6E91:A341:16E1|2A01:119F:21D:7900:E56A:6E91:A341:16E1]] ([[User talk:2A01:119F:21D:7900:E56A:6E91:A341:16E1|talk]]) 17:35, 29 October 2018 (UTC)