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What is the Basic Latin character set used by ISO Standards Catalogue 01.140.10?

I have a reference to "the Basic Latin character set used by ISO Standards Catalogue 01.140.10" and I need to know the exact set of code points.

Without going through all the standards found in Standards Catalogue 01.140.10 can I find this Basic Latin character set somewhere (preferably reasonably authoritative)?

Is it "Latin-1", ISO 8859-1, etc.? Or something entirely different?

Solution

  • Yes, LATIN-1 is the ISO-8859-1 character set.

    Here's an "authorative" link from ISO web site, although it seems you have to buy it:

    https://www.iso.org/standard/28245.html

    I would be comfortable taking any of the links from wikipedia or google search as authorative (take your pick):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Latin_character_sets_(computing)

    http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/iso8859-1.html

    https://cs.stanford.edu/people/miles/iso8859.html