The PostScript Latin 1 Encoding (often spelled ISOLatin1Encoding) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems'

PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language. It was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, ...

(PS) since 1984 (1982). In 1995, IBM assigned code page 1277 (

CCSID A CCSID (coded character set identifier) is a 16-bit number that represents a particular character encoding, encoding of a specific code page. For example, Unicode is a code page that has several encoding (so called "transformation") forms, like UT ...

1277) to this character set. It is a superset of

ISO 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1 ...

Code page layout

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* (NB. This book is informally called "red book" due to its red cover.) * (NB. This edition also contains a description of

Display PostScript Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers which uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics. To the basic PS system, DPS adds a num ...

, which is no longer discussed in the third edition.) {{Character encoding Character sets