ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard

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s, first edition published in 1988. It is informally referred to as Latin-4 or ''North European''. It was designed to cover Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, and Sámi. It has been largely superseded by ISO/IEC 8859-10 and

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. Microsoft has assigned code page 28594 a.k.a. Windows-28594 to ISO-8859-4 in Windows. IBM has assigned code page 914 ( CCSID 914) to ISO 8859-4. ISO-8859-4 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. ISO-IR 205 (called Code page 58258 by FreeDOS) replaces the generic Currency Sign at 0xA4 with the Euro Sign.

Codepage layout

Differences from

ISO-8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology—8-bit computing, 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character (computing), character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character enc ...

have the Unicode code point below them.

References

External links

ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998
- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4 ''(draft dated February 12, 1998, published July 1, 1998)''
Standard ECMA-94
8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 ''2nd edition (June 1986)''
ISO-IR 110
Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.4 ''(February 1, 1986)''
ISO-IR 205
Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.4 with Euro ''(February 1, 1986)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:ISO IEC 8859-4 ISO/IEC 8859 Computer-related introductions in 1988 Sámi languages Latvian language Lithuanian language Greenlandic language Estonian language