Editing ISO/IEC 8859-1 (section)

== Coverage ==
{{See also|Latin-script alphabet}}
Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following languages (while it may exclude correct [[quotation mark#German|quotation marks]] such as for many languages including [[German language|German]] and [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]):

=== Modern languages with complete coverage ===
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
* [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]]
* [[Albanian language|Albanian]]
* [[Basque language|Basque]]
* [[Breton language|Breton]]
* [[Corsican language|Corsican]]
* [[English language|English]]
* [[Faroese language|Faroese]]
* [[Galician language|Galician]]
* [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]
* [[Ido]]
* [[Irish Language|Irish]]
* [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]
* [[Italian language|Italian]]
* [[Leonese dialect|Leonese]]
* [[Lojban]]
* [[Luxembourgish language|Luxembourgish]]{{efn|Basic classical orthography}}
* [[Malay language|Malay]]{{efn|[[Rumi script]]}}
* [[Manx language|Manx]]
* [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]{{efn|Bokmål and Nynorsk}}
* [[Occitan language|Occitan]]
* [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]{{efn|European and Brazilian}}
* [[Romansh language|Rhaeto-Romanic]]
* [[Rotokas alphabet|Rotokas]]
* [[Scottish Gaelic]]
* [[Scots language|Scots]]
* [[Southern Sami language|Southern Sami]]
* [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
* [[Swahili language|Swahili]]
* [[Swedish language|Swedish]]
* [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] (Latin script)
* [[Toki Pona]]
* [[Walloon language|Walloon]]
}}

====Notes====
{{Notelist}}

=== Languages with incomplete coverage ===
ISO-8859-1 was commonly used{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} for certain languages, even though it lacks characters used by these languages. In most cases, only a few letters are missing or they are rarely used, and they can be replaced with characters that are in ISO-8859-1 using some form of [[typographic approximation]]. The following table lists such languages.

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Language !! Missing characters !! Typical workaround !! Supported by
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| [[Catalan language|Catalan]] || [[Ŀ]], ŀ (deprecated) || L·, l· ||
|-
| [[Danish language|Danish]] || [[Ǿ]], ǿ (the accent is optional and ǿ is very rare)|| Ø, ø or øe ||
|-
| [[Dutch language|Dutch]] || [[IJ (digraph)|Ĳ]], ĳ (debatable), [[j́]] (in emphasized words like "blíj́f") || [[digraph (orthography)|digraphs]] IJ, ij or ÿ; blíjf ||
|-
| [[Estonian language|Estonian]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]] || [[Š]], š, [[Ž]], ž (only present in loanwords) || Sh, sh, Zh, zh || [[ISO/IEC 8859-15|ISO-8859-15]], [[Windows-1252]]
|-
| [[French language|French]] || [[Œ]], œ, and the very rare [[Ÿ]] || [[digraph (orthography)|digraphs]] OE, oe; Y or Ý || [[ISO/IEC 8859-15|ISO-8859-15]], [[Windows-1252]]
|-
| [[German language|German]] || [[Capital ẞ|ẞ]] (capital ß, used only in all capitals) || [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]] SS or SZ ||
|-
| [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] || [[Ő]], ő, [[Ű]], ű || Ö, ö, Ü, ü <br />[[Õ]], õ, [[Û]], û (the characters replaced in {{nowrap|[[ISO/IEC 8859-2|8859-2]]}}) || [[ISO/IEC 8859-2|ISO-8859-2]], [[Windows-1250]]
|-
| [[Irish language|Irish]] ([[Irish orthography#Alphabet|traditional orthography]])|| Ḃ, ḃ, Ċ, ċ, Ḋ, ḋ, Ḟ, ḟ, Ġ, ġ, Ṁ, ṁ, Ṗ, ṗ, Ṡ, ṡ, Ṫ, ṫ || Bh, bh, Ch, ch, Dh, dh, Fh, fh, Gh, gh, Mh, mh, Ph, ph, Sh, sh, Th, th || [[ISO/IEC 8859-14|ISO-8859-14]]
|-
| [[Maltese language|Maltese]]|| [[Ċ]], ċ, [[Ġ]], ġ, [[Ħ]], ħ, [[Ż]], ż || C, c, G, g, H, h, Z, z || [[ISO/IEC 8859-3|ISO-8859-3]]
|-
| [[Welsh language|Welsh]] || [[Ẁ]], ẁ, [[Ẃ]], ẃ, [[Ŵ]], ŵ, [[Ẅ]], ẅ, [[Ỳ]], ỳ, [[Ŷ]], ŷ, [[Ÿ]] || W, w, Y, y, Ý, ý || [[ISO/IEC 8859-14|ISO-8859-14]]
|}

The letter ''ÿ'', which appears in French only very rarely, mainly in city names such as [[L'Haÿ-les-Roses]] and never at the beginning of words, is included only in lowercase form. The slot corresponding to its uppercase form is occupied by the lowercase letter ''[[ß]]'' from the German language, which did not have an [[Capital ẞ|uppercase form]] at the time when the standard was created.

=== Quotation marks ===
Typographical (6- or 9-shaped) [[Quotation mark#Summary table|quotation marks]] are missing, as are any baseline quotation marks used by some of the supported languages. Only {{code|« »}}, {{code|" "}}, and {{code|' '}} are included. Some fonts will display the spacing grave accent (0x60) and the apostrophe (0x27) as a matching pair of oriented single quotation marks (see {{section link|Quotation mark|Typewriters and early computers}}), but this is not considered part of the modern standard.

=== Superscript digits ===
Only 3 superscript digits have been encoded: <code>²</code> at 0xB2, <code>³</code> at 0xB3, and <code>¹</code> at 0xB9, lacking the superscript digit 0 and digits 4–9. Additionally, none of the subscript digits have been encoded. A workaround would be to use rich text formatting for the digits not covered by this standard.

=== Euro sign ===
The [[euro sign]] was first presented to the public on 12 December 1996.<ref>{{cite web |title=Typographers discuss the euro |url=https://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/eurotypo.html |website=Evertype |access-date=28 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222002244/https://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/eurotypo.html |archive-date=22 February 2023 |date=December 1996}}</ref> Due to this character set being introduced in 1987, it does not include the euro sign. Later character sets similar to ISO/IEC 8859-1 include a euro sign, such as [[Windows-1252]] and [[ISO/IEC 8859-15]].