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 and ASCII
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.
The codes from 128 to 159 are not in use in ISO-8859-1, but many browsers will display the characters from the ANSI (Windows-1252) character set instead of nothing.
For a closer look, please study our Complete ANSI Reference.
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 spaceTry it | |
| ¡ | ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation markTry it |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ | centTry it |
| £ | £ | £ | poundTry it |
| ¤ | ¤ | ¤ | currencyTry it |
| ¥ | ¥ | ¥ | yenTry it |
| ¦ | ¦ | ¦ | broken vertical barTry it |
| § | § | § | sectionTry it |
| ¨ | ¨ | ¨ | spacing diaeresisTry it |
| © | © | © | copyrightTry it |
| ª | ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicatorTry it |
| « | « | « | angle quotation mark (left)Try it |
| ¬ | ¬ | ¬ | negationTry it |
| | ­ | ­ | soft hyphenTry it |
| ® | ® | ® | registered trademarkTry it |
| ¯ | ¯ | ¯ | spacing macronTry it |
| ° | ° | ° | degreeTry it |
| ± | ± | ± | plus-or-minusTry it |
| ² | ² | ² | superscript 2Try it |
| ³ | ³ | ³ | superscript 3Try it |
| ´ | ´ | ´ | spacing acuteTry it |
| µ | µ | µ | microTry it |
| ¶ | ¶ | ¶ | paragraphTry it |
| · | · | · | middle dotTry it |
| ¸ | ¸ | ¸ | spacing cedillaTry it |
| ¹ | ¹ | ¹ | superscript 1Try it |
| º | º | º | masculine ordinal indicatorTry it |
| » | » | » | angle quotation mark (right)Try it |
| ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | fraction 1/4Try it |
| ½ | ½ | ½ | fraction 1/2Try it |
| ¾ | ¾ | ¾ | fraction 3/4Try it |
| ¿ | ¿ | ¿ | inverted question markTry it |
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 accentTry it |
| Á | Á | Á | capital a, acute accentTry it |
| Â | Â | Â | capital a, circumflex accentTry it |
| Ã | Ã | Ã | capital a, tildeTry it |
| Ä | Ä | Ä | capital a, umlaut markTry it |
| Å | Å | Å | capital a, ringTry it |
| Æ | Æ | Æ | capital aeTry it |
| Ç | Ç | Ç | capital c, cedillaTry it |
| È | È | È | capital e, grave accentTry it |
| É | É | É | capital e, acute accentTry it |
| Ê | Ê | Ê | capital e, circumflex accentTry it |
| Ë | Ë | Ë | capital e, umlaut markTry it |
| Ì | Ì | Ì | capital i, grave accentTry it |
| Í | Í | Í | capital i, acute accentTry it |
| Î | Î | Î | capital i, circumflex accentTry it |
| Ï | Ï | Ï | capital i, umlaut markTry it |
| Ð | Ð | Ð | capital eth, IcelandicTry it |
| Ñ | Ñ | Ñ | capital n, tildeTry it |
| Ò | Ò | Ò | capital o, grave accentTry it |
| Ó | Ó | Ó | capital o, acute accentTry it |
| Ô | Ô | Ô | capital o, circumflex accentTry it |
| Õ | Õ | Õ | capital o, tildeTry it |
| Ö | Ö | Ö | capital o, umlaut markTry it |
| × | × | × | multiplicationTry it |
| Ø | Ø | Ø | capital o, slashTry it |
| Ù | Ù | Ù | capital u, grave accentTry it |
| Ú | Ú | Ú | capital u, acute accentTry it |
| Û | Û | Û | capital u, circumflex accentTry it |
| Ü | Ü | Ü | capital u, umlaut markTry it |
| Ý | Ý | Ý | capital y, acute accentTry it |
| Þ | Þ | Þ | capital THORN, IcelandicTry it |
| ß | ß | ß | small sharp s, GermanTry it |
| à | à | à | small a, grave accentTry it |
| á | á | á | small a, acute accentTry it |
| â | â | â | small a, circumflex accentTry it |
| ã | ã | ã | small a, tildeTry it |
| ä | ä | ä | small a, umlaut markTry it |
| å | å | å | small a, ringTry it |
| æ | æ | æ | small aeTry it |
| ç | ç | ç | small c, cedillaTry it |
| è | è | è | small e, grave accentTry it |
| é | é | é | small e, acute accentTry it |
| ê | ê | ê | small e, circumflex accentTry it |
| ë | ë | ë | small e, umlaut markTry it |
| ì | ì | ì | small i, grave accentTry it |
| í | í | í | small i, acute accentTry it |
| î | î | î | small i, circumflex accentTry it |
| ï | ï | ï | small i, umlaut markTry it |
| ð | ð | ð | small eth, IcelandicTry it |
| ñ | ñ | ñ | small n, tildeTry it |
| ò | ò | ò | small o, grave accentTry it |
| ó | ó | ó | small o, acute accentTry it |
| ô | ô | ô | small o, circumflex accentTry it |
| õ | õ | õ | small o, tildeTry it |
| ö | ö | ö | small o, umlaut markTry it |
| ÷ | ÷ | ÷ | divisionTry it |
| ø | ø | ø | small o, slashTry it |
| ù | ù | ù | small u, grave accentTry it |
| ú | ú | ú | small u, acute accentTry it |
| û | û | û | small u, circumflex accentTry it |
| ü | ü | ü | small u, umlaut markTry it |
| ý | ý | ý | small y, acute accentTry it |
| þ | þ | þ | small thorn, IcelandicTry it |
| ÿ | ÿ | ÿ | small y, umlaut markTry it |
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 |
