HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1 is the default character in HTML 4.01.
ISO (The International Standards Organization) defines the standard character sets for different alphabets/languages.
The different variants of ISO-8859 are listed at the bottom of this page.
ISO-8859-1 Character Set
The first part of ISO-8859-1 (entity numbers from 0-127) is the original ASCII character-set. It contains numbers, upper and lowercase English letters, and some special characters.
For a closer look, please study our Complete ASCII Reference.
Character | Number | Entity Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
0 - 31 | Control characters | ||
32 | space | ||
! | 33 | exclamation mark | |
" | 34 | " | quotation mark |
# | 35 | number sign | |
$ | 36 | dollar sign | |
% | 37 | percent sign | |
& | 38 | & | ampersand |
' | 39 | apostrophe | |
( | 40 | left parenthesis | |
) | 41 | right parenthesis | |
* | 42 | asterisk | |
+ | 43 | plus sign | |
, | 44 | comma | |
- | 45 | hyphen-minus | |
. | 46 | full stop | |
/ | 47 | solidus | |
0 | 48 | digit zero | |
1 | 49 | digit one | |
2 | 50 | digit two | |
3 | 51 | digit three | |
4 | 52 | digit four | |
5 | 53 | digit five | |
6 | 54 | digit six | |
7 | 55 | digit seven | |
8 | 56 | digit eight | |
9 | 57 | digit nine | |
: | 58 | colon | |
; | 59 | semicolon | |
< | 60 | < | less-than sign |
= | 61 | equals sign | |
> | 62 | > | greater-than sign |
? | 63 | question mark | |
@ | 64 | commercial at | |
A | 65 | Latin capital letter A | |
B | 66 | Latin capital letter B | |
C | 67 | Latin capital letter C | |
D | 68 | Latin capital letter D | |
E | 69 | Latin capital letter E | |
F | 70 | Latin capital letter F | |
G | 71 | Latin capital letter G | |
H | 72 | Latin capital letter H | |
I | 73 | Latin capital letter I | |
J | 74 | Latin capital letter J | |
K | 75 | Latin capital letter K | |
L | 76 | Latin capital letter L | |
M | 77 | Latin capital letter M | |
N | 78 | Latin capital letter N | |
O | 79 | Latin capital letter O | |
P | 80 | Latin capital letter P | |
Q | 81 | Latin capital letter Q | |
R | 82 | Latin capital letter R | |
S | 83 | Latin capital letter S | |
T | 84 | Latin capital letter T | |
U | 85 | Latin capital letter U | |
V | 86 | Latin capital letter V | |
W | 87 | Latin capital letter W | |
X | 88 | Latin capital letter X | |
Y | 89 | Latin capital letter Y | |
Z | 90 | Latin capital letter Z | |
[ | 91 | left square bracket | |
\ | 92 | reverse solidus | |
] | 93 | right square bracket | |
^ | 94 | circumflex accent | |
_ | 95 | low line | |
` | 96 | grave accent | |
a | 97 | Latin small letter a | |
b | 98 | Latin small letter b | |
c | 99 | Latin small letter c | |
d | 100 | Latin small letter d | |
e | 101 | Latin small letter e | |
f | 102 | Latin small letter f | |
g | 103 | Latin small letter g | |
h | 104 | Latin small letter h | |
i | 105 | Latin small letter i | |
j | 106 | Latin small letter j | |
k | 107 | Latin small letter k | |
l | 108 | Latin small letter l | |
m | 109 | Latin small letter m | |
n | 110 | Latin small letter n | |
o | 111 | Latin small letter o | |
p | 112 | Latin small letter p | |
q | 113 | Latin small letter q | |
r | 114 | Latin small letter r | |
s | 115 | Latin small letter s | |
t | 116 | Latin small letter t | |
u | 117 | Latin small letter u | |
v | 118 | Latin small letter v | |
w | 119 | Latin small letter w | |
x | 120 | Latin small letter x | |
y | 121 | Latin small letter y | |
z | 122 | Latin small letter z | |
{ | 123 | left curly bracket | |
| | 124 | vertical line | |
} | 125 | right curly bracket | |
~ | 126 | tilde | |
127 | Control character |
ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252
ISO-8859-1 is very similar to Windows-1252.
In ISO-8859-1, the characters from 128 to 159 are not defined.
In Windows-1252, the characters from 128 to 159 are used for some useful symbols.
For a closer look, please study our Complete ANSI (Windows-1252) Reference.
Since many web sites declare ISO-8859-1 and use the values from 128 to 159 as if they were using Windows-1252, most browsers will display these characters from the Windows-1252 character set instead of nothing.
Character | Number | Entity Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
€ | 128 | € | euro sign |
129 | NOT USED | ||
‚ | 130 | ‚ | single low-9 quotation mark |
ƒ | 131 | ƒ | Latin small letter f with hook |
„ | 132 | „ | double low-9 quotation mark |
… | 133 | … | horizontal ellipsis |
† | 134 | † | dagger |
‡ | 135 | ‡ | double dagger |
ˆ | 136 | ˆ | modifier letter circumflex accent |
‰ | 137 | ‰ | per mille sign |
Š | 138 | Š | Latin capital letter S with caron |
‹ | 139 | ‹ | single left-pointing angle quotation mark |
Œ | 140 | Œ | Latin capital ligature OE |
141 | NOT USED | ||
Ž | 142 | Ž | Latin capital letter Z with caron |
143 | NOT USED | ||
144 | NOT USED | ||
‘ | 145 | ‘ | left single quotation mark |
’ | 146 | ’ | right single quotation mark |
“ | 147 | “ | left double quotation mark |
” | 148 | ” | right double quotation mark |
• | 149 | • | bullet |
– | 150 | – | en dash |
— | 151 | — | em dash |
˜ | 152 | ˜ | small tilde |
™ | 153 | ™ | trade mark sign |
š | 154 | š | Latin small letter s with caron |
› | 155 | › | single right-pointing angle quotation mark |
œ | 156 | œ | Latin small ligature oe |
157 | NOT USED | ||
ž | 158 | ž | Latin small letter z with caron |
Ÿ | 159 | Ÿ | Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis |
ISO-8859-1 Symbols
The next part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 160-191) contains commonly used special characters.
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 |
ISO-8859-1 Characters
The higher part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 192-255, except 215 and 247) contains characters used in Western European countries.
Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
À | À | À | capital a, grave accent |
Á | Á | Á | capital a, acute accent |
 |  |  | capital a, circumflex accent |
à | à | à | 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 |
× | × | × | multiplication |
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 |
÷ | ÷ | ÷ | division |
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
Character set | Description | Covers |
---|---|---|
ISO-8859-1 | Latin alphabet part 1 | North America, Western Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa |
ISO-8859-2 | Latin alphabet part 2 | Eastern Europe |
ISO-8859-3 | Latin alphabet part 3 | SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous others |
ISO-8859-4 | Latin alphabet part 4 | Scandinavia/Baltics (and others not in ISO-8859-1) |
ISO-8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic part 5 | The languages that are using a Cyrillic alphabet such as Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian and Macedonian |
ISO-8859-6 | Latin/Arabic part 6 | The languages that are using the Arabic alphabet |
ISO-8859-7 | Latin/Greek part 7 | The modern Greek language as well as mathematical symbols derived from the Greek |
ISO-8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew part 8 | The languages that are using the Hebrew alphabet |
ISO-8859-9 | Latin 5 part 9 | The Turkish language. Same as ISO-8859-1 except Turkish characters replace Icelandic ones |
ISO-8859-10 | Latin 6 Lappish, Nordic, Eskimo | The Nordic languages |
ISO-8859-15 | Latin 9 (aka 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 part 1 | The Japanese language |
ISO-2022-JP-2 | Latin/Japanese part 2 | The Japanese language |
ISO-2022-KR | Latin/Korean part 1 | The Korean language |