Character Set Description
ISO-8859-1 Latin alphabet part 1 Covering North America, Western Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa
ISO-8859-2 Latin alphabet part 2 Covering Eastern Europe
ISO-8859-3 Latin alphabet part 3 Covering SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous others
ISO-8859-4 Latin alphabet part 4 Covering Scandinavia/Baltics (and others not in ISO-8859-1)
ISO-8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic alphabet part 5
ISO-8859-6 Latin/Arabic alphabet part 6
ISO-8859-7 Latin/Greek alphabet part 7
ISO-8859-8 Latin/Hebrew alphabet part 8
ISO-8859-9 Latin 5 alphabet part 9 (same as ISO-8859-1 except Turkish characters replace Icelandic ones)
ISO-8859-10 Latin 6 Latin 6 Lappish, Nordic, and Eskimo
ISO-8859-15 The same as ISO-8859-1 but with more characters added
ISO-2022-JP Latin/Japanese alphabet part 1
ISO-2022-JP-2 Latin/Japanese alphabet part 2
ISO-2022-KR Latin/Korean alphabet part 1
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