ISO/IEC 8859-13

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ISO/IEC 8859-13 is an 8-bit character encoding standard designed primarily for Baltic languages such as Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian.

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ISO/IEC 8859-13 canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf character encoding standard
alsoKnownAs Latin alphabet No. 7
Latin-7
category character encoding
codePoints0to127 identical to ASCII
codeRange 0–255
codeUnitSize 8 bits
compatibility often mapped to Unicode code points
contains Latin letters with Baltic-specific diacritics
control characters
currency symbols
punctuation characters
definesCodePointsFor 256 characters
designGoal provide Latin alphabet for Northern European languages
support Baltic languages
encodingForm single-byte
hasByteValues128to255 assigned to additional letters and symbols
lowerHalfCompatibility ASCII
ISO/IEC 646
linked to: ISO 646
partOf ISO/IEC 8859
primaryUse Baltic languages
publishedBy International Electrotechnical Commission
International Organization for Standardization
regionFocus Baltic region
linked to: Baltic Sea region
relatedStandard ISO/IEC 8859-10
ISO/IEC 8859-15
ISO/IEC 8859-4
script Latin script
standardFamily ISO/IEC 8859 Latin encodings
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859
standardNumber 8859-13
supersededBy Unicode
supportsLanguage Danish
Estonian
linked to: Estonian language

Finnish
German
Greenlandic
linked to: Kalaallisut

Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
linked to: Norwegian language

Polish
linked to: Polish language

Sami languages
Swedish
usedIn legacy systems
older email systems
older operating systems

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ISO/IEC 8859 hasMember ISO/IEC 8859-13
ISO/IEC 8859-10 relatedTo ISO/IEC 8859-13