ISO/IEC 8859
| Standard | ISO/IEC 8859 |
|---|---|
| Classification | 8-bit extended ASCII, ISO/IEC 4873 level 1 |
| Extends | ASCII |
| Preceded by | ISO/IEC 646 |
| Succeeded by | ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) |
| Other related encodings | ISO/IEC 10367, Windows-125x |
ISO/IEC 8859 is a series of technical standards for 8-bit character encodings developed jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Each part is numbered: ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards has been disbanded.
ISO/IEC 8859 parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally Ecma International standard ECMA-94.