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📛 NAME

iso_8859-16 – ISO 8859-16 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
📝 Print a character by hex code	echo -e '\xA0'	Prints the non‑breaking space (U+00A0)
🔄 Convert file to UTF‑8	iconv -f ISO-8859-16 -t UTF-8 input.txt	Converts a text file from Latin‑10 to Unicode
🔍 Inspect a file’s charset	file -i filename	Shows the detected character encoding (may not be precise)
📋 List all printable characters	for i in $(seq 160 255); do printf "\\%o: %c\n" $i $i; done	Prints octal code and corresponding ISO‑8859‑16 character

📖 DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8‑bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646‑IRV). ISO 8859‑16 encodes the Latin characters used in Southeast European languages.

🌐 ISO 8859 alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

• ISO 8859‑1 – West European languages (Latin‑1)
• ISO 8859‑2 – Central and East European languages (Latin‑2)
• ISO 8859‑3 – Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin‑3)
• ISO 8859‑4 – Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin‑4)
• ISO 8859‑5 – Latin/Cyrillic
• ISO 8859‑6 – Latin/Arabic
• ISO 8859‑7 – Latin/Greek
• ISO 8859‑8 – Latin/Hebrew
• ISO 8859‑9 – Latin‑1 modification for Turkish (Latin‑5)
• ISO 8859‑10 – Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin‑6)
• ISO 8859‑11 – Latin/Thai
• ISO 8859‑13 – Baltic Rim languages (Latin‑7)
• ISO 8859‑14 – Celtic (Latin‑8)
• ISO 8859‑15 – West European languages (Latin‑9)
• ISO 8859‑16 – Romanian (Latin‑10)

📋 ISO 8859‑16 characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859‑16 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

       Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description
       ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       240   160   A0           NO-BREAK SPACE
       241   161   A1     Ą     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
       242   162   A2     ą     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
       243   163   A3     Ł     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
       244   164   A4     €     EURO SIGN
       245   165   A5     „     DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
       246   166   A6     Š     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
       247   167   A7     §     SECTION SIGN
       250   168   A8     š     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
       251   169   A9     ©     COPYRIGHT SIGN
       252   170   AA     Ș     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
       253   171   AB     «     LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
       254   172   AC     Ź     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
       255   173   AD           SOFT HYPHEN
       256   174   AE     ź     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
       257   175   AF     Ż     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
       260   176   B0     °     DEGREE SIGN
       261   177   B1     ±     PLUS-MINUS SIGN
       262   178   B2     Č     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
       263   179   B3     ł     LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
       264   180   B4     Ž     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
       265   181   B5     ”     LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
       266   182   B6     ¶     PILCROW SIGN
       267   183   B7     ·     MIDDLE DOT
       270   184   B8     ž     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
       271   185   B9     č     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
       272   186   BA     ș     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
       273   187   BB     »     RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
       274   188   BC     Π    LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
       275   189   BD     œ     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
       276   190   BE     Ÿ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
       277   191   BF     ż     LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE
       300   192   C0     À     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
       301   193   C1     Á     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
       302   194   C2     Â     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       303   195   C3     Ă     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
       304   196   C4     Ä     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
       305   197   C5     Ć     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
       306   198   C6     Æ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
       307   199   C7     Ç     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
       310   200   C8     È     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
       311   201   C9     É     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
       312   202   CA     Ê     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       313   203   CB     Ë     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
       314   204   CC     Ì     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
       315   205   CD     Í     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
       316   206   CE     Î     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       317   207   CF     Ï     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
       320   208   D0     Đ     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE
       321   209   D1     Ń     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
       322   210   D2     Ò     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
       323   211   D3     Ó     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
       324   212   D4     Ô     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       325   213   D5     Ő     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       326   214   D6     Ö     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
       327   215   D7     Ś     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
       330   216   D8     Ű     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       331   217   D9     Ù     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
       332   218   DA     Ú     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
       333   219   DB     Û     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       334   220   DC     Ü     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
       335   221   DD     Ę     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
       336   222   DE     Ț     LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
       337   223   DF     ß     LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
       340   224   E0     à     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
       341   225   E1     á     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
       342   226   E2     â     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       343   227   E3     ă     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
       344   228   E4     ä     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
       345   229   E5     ć     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
       346   230   E6     æ     LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
       347   231   E7     ç     LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
       350   232   E8     è     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
       351   233   E9     é     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
       352   234   EA     ê     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       353   235   EB     ë     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
       354   236   EC     ì     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
       355   237   ED     í     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
       356   238   EE     î     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       357   239   EF     ï     LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
       360   240   F0     đ     LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
       361   241   F1     ń     LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
       362   242   F2     ò     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
       363   243   F3     ó     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
       364   244   F4     ô     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       365   245   F5     ő     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       366   246   F6     ö     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
       367   247   F7     ś     LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
       370   248   F8     ű     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
       371   249   F9     ù     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
       372   250   FA     ú     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
       373   251   FB     û     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
       374   252   FC     ü     LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
       375   253   FD     ę     LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK
       376   254   FE     ț     LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
       377   255   FF     ÿ     LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

📝 NOTES

ISO 8859‑16 is also known as Latin‑10.

📚 SEE ALSO

ascii(7), charsets(7), iso_8859‑3(7), utf‑8(7)

📖 COLOPHON

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