Character Set Description

ISO-8859-1      Latin alphabet part 1 Covering North America, Western Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Africa

ISO-8859-2      Latin alphabet part 2 Covering Eastern Europe

ISO-8859-3      Latin alphabet part 3 Covering SE Europe, Esperanto, miscellaneous others

ISO-8859-4      Latin alphabet part 4 Covering Scandinavia/Baltics (and others not in ISO-8859-1)

ISO-8859-5      Latin/Cyrillic alphabet part 5

ISO-8859-6      Latin/Arabic alphabet part 6

ISO-8859-7      Latin/Greek alphabet part 7

ISO-8859-8      Latin/Hebrew alphabet part 8

ISO-8859-9      Latin 5 alphabet part 9 (same as ISO-8859-1 except Turkish characters replace Icelandic ones)

ISO-8859-10     Latin 6 Latin 6 Lappish, Nordic, and Eskimo

ISO-8859-15     The same as ISO-8859-1 but with more characters added

ISO-2022-JP     Latin/Japanese alphabet part 1

ISO-2022-JP-2   Latin/Japanese alphabet part 2

ISO-2022-KR     Latin/Korean alphabet part 1