Editing ISO/IEC 8859-1 (section)

=== 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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! Language !! Missing characters !! Typical workaround !! Supported by
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| [[Catalan language|Catalan]] || [[Ŀ]], ŀ (deprecated) || L·, l· ||
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| [[Danish language|Danish]] || [[Ǿ]], ǿ (the accent is optional and ǿ is very rare)|| Ø, ø or øe ||
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| [[Dutch language|Dutch]] || [[IJ (digraph)|Ĳ]], ĳ (debatable), [[j́]] (in emphasized words like "blíj́f") || [[digraph (orthography)|digraphs]] IJ, ij or ÿ; blíjf ||
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| [[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]]
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| [[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]]
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| [[German language|German]] || [[Capital ẞ|ẞ]] (capital ß, used only in all capitals) || [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]] SS or SZ ||
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| [[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]]
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| [[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]]
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| [[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]]
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| [[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]]
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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.