ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-1 (The International Standards Organization) is the default character set in most browsers.

The first 128 characters of ISO-8859-1 are the original ASCII character-set (the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English alphabet, and some special characters).

Reserved Characters in HTML

Some characters are reserved in HTML. That is because these are the characters making up the HTML language. For example, you cannot use the greater than or less than signs in your text, as the browser will try to interpret it as HTML. Then, use the entity name or entity number when you want to output any of the reserved characters.

See the list of the reserved characters in the table below:

Character	Entity Number	Entity Name	Description
"	"	"	quotation mark
'	'	'	apostrophe
&	&	&	ampersand
<	<	<	less-than
>	>	>	greater-than

ISO 8859-1 Symbols

Character	Entity Number	Entity Name	Description
			non-breaking space
¡	¡	¡	inverted exclamation mark
¢	¢	¢	cent
£	£	£	pound
¤	¤	¤	currency
¥	¥	¥	yen
¦	¦	¦	broken vertical bar
§	§	§	section
¨	¨	¨	spacing diaeresis
©	©	©	copyright
ª	ª	ª	feminine ordinal indicator
«	«	«	angle quotation mark (left)
¬	¬	¬	negation
�			soft hyphen
®	®	®	registered trademark
¯	¯	¯	spacing macron
°	°	°	degree
±	±	±	plus-or-minus
²	²	²	superscript 2
³	³	³	superscript 3
´	´	´	spacing acute
µ	µ	µ	micro
¶	¶	¶	paragraph
·	·	·	middle dot
¸	¸	¸	spacing cedilla
¹	¹	¹	superscript 1
º	º	º	masculine ordinal indicator
»	»	»	angle quotation mark (right)
¼	¼	¼	fraction 1/4
½	½	½	fraction 1/2
¾	¾	¾	fraction 3/4
¿	¿	¿	inverted question mark
×	×	×	multiplication
÷	÷	÷	division

ISO 8859-1 Characters

Character	Entity Number	Entity Name	Description
À	À	À	capital a, grave accent
Á	Á	Á	capital a, acute accent
Â	Â	Â	capital a, circumflex accent
Ã	Ã	Ã	capital a, tilde
Ä	Ä	Ä	capital a, umlaut mark
Å	Å	Å	capital a, ring
Æ	Æ	Æ	capital ae
Ç	Ç	Ç	capital c, cedilla
È	È	È	capital e, grave accent
É	É	É	capital e, acute accent
Ê	Ê	Ê	capital e, circumflex accent
Ë	Ë	Ë	capital e, umlaut mark
Ì	Ì	Ì	capital i, grave accent
Í	Í	Í	capital i, acute accent
Î	Î	Î	capital i, circumflex accent
Ï	Ï	Ï	capital i, umlaut mark
Ð	Ð	Ð	capital eth, Icelandic
Ñ	Ñ	Ñ	capital n, tilde
Ò	Ò	Ò	capital o, grave accent
Ó	Ó	Ó	capital o, acute accent
Ô	Ô	Ô	capital o, circumflex accent
Õ	Õ	Õ	capital o, tilde
Ö	Ö	Ö	capital o, umlaut mark
Ø	Ø	Ø	capital o, slash
Ù	Ù	Ù	capital u, grave accent
Ú	Ú	Ú	capital u, acute accent
Û	Û	Û	capital u, circumflex accent
Ü	Ü	Ü	capital u, umlaut mark
Ý	Ý	Ý	capital y, acute accent
Þ	Þ	Þ	capital THORN, Icelandic
ß	ß	ß	small sharp s, German
à	à	à	small a, grave accent
á	á	á	small a, acute accent
â	â	â	small a, circumflex accent
ã	ã	ã	small a, tilde
ä	ä	ä	small a, umlaut mark
å	å	å	small a, ring
æ	æ	æ	small ae
ç	ç	ç	small c, cedilla
è	è	è	small e, grave accent
é	é	é	small e, acute accent
ê	ê	ê	small e, circumflex accent
ë	ë	ë	small e, umlaut mark
ì	ì	ì	small i, grave accent
í	í	í	small i, acute accent
î	î	î	small i, circumflex accent
ï	ï	ï	small i, umlaut mark
ð	ð	ð	small eth, Icelandic
ñ	ñ	ñ	small n, tilde
ò	ò	ò	small o, grave accent
ó	ó	ó	small o, acute accent
ô	ô	ô	small o, circumflex accent
õ	õ	õ	small o, tilde
ö	ö	ö	small o, umlaut mark
ø	ø	ø	small o, slash
ù	ù	ù	small u, grave accent
ú	ú	ú	small u, acute accent
û	û	û	small u, circumflex accent
ü	ü	ü	small u, umlaut mark
ý	ý	ý	small y, acute accent
þ	þ	þ	small thorn, Icelandic
ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	small y, umlaut mark

Variants of ISO-8859-1

Character set	Description	Covers
ISO-8859-1	Latin 1	North America, Western Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa.
ISO-8859-2	Latin 2	Eastern Europe.
ISO-8859-3	Latin 3	SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous others.
ISO-8859-4	Latin 4	Scandinavia/Baltics (and others not in ISO-8859-1).
ISO-8859-5	Latin/Cyrillic	The languages that use a Cyrillic alphabet such as Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian and Macedonian.
ISO-8859-6	Latin/Arabic	The languages that use the Arabic alphabet.
ISO-8859-7	Latin/Greek	The modern Greek language as well as mathematical symbols derived from the Greek.
ISO-8859-8	Latin/Hebrew	The languages that use the Hebrew alphabet.
ISO-8859-9	Latin/Turkish	The Turkish language. Same as ISO-8859-1 except Turkish characters replace Icelandic ones.
ISO-8859-10	Latin/Nordic	The Nordic languages.
ISO-8859-15	Latin 9 (Latin 0)	Similar to ISO-8859-1 but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some other missing characters.
ISO-2022-JP	Latin/Japanese 1	The Japanese language.
ISO-2022-JP-2	Latin/Japanese 2	The Japanese language.
ISO-2022-KR	Latin/Korean 1	The Korean language.

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