ISO/IEC 8859-1

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ISO/IEC 8859-1
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ISO/IEC 8859-1

Summary

ISO/IEC 8859-1 is an Extended ASCII[1]. It draws 278 Wikipedia views per month (extended_ascii category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's image is recorded as Latin-1-infobox.svg[3].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's instance of is recorded as Extended ASCII[4].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's instance of is recorded as IEC standard[5].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's instance of is recorded as ISO standard[6].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's follows is recorded as Multinational Character Set[7].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's followed by is recorded as ISO/IEC 8859-2[8].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's followed by is recorded as Unicode[9].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's part of is recorded as ISO/IEC 8859[10].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's has use is recorded as Latin script[11].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's has use is recorded as Western Europe[12].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's has use is recorded as Americas[13].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's Commons category is recorded as ISO 8859-1[14].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03w9s[15].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's has edition or translation is recorded as ISO 8859–1:1987: Information processing—8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1[16].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's has edition or translation is recorded as ISO/IEC 8859–1:1998: Information technology—8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1[17].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's partially coincident with is recorded as Windows-1252[18].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as ISO_8859-1[19].
  • ISO/IEC 8859-1's man page is recorded as iso_8859-1.7[20].

Body

Geography

ISO/IEC 8859-1's part of is recorded as ISO/IEC 8859[10].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include Extended ASCII[4], IEC standard[5], and ISO standard[6].

Why It Matters

ISO/IEC 8859-1 draws 278 Wikipedia views per month (extended_ascii category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_iso-iec-8859-1_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{ISO/IEC 8859-1}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/iso-iec-8859-1}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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