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)'', is part of the

ISO/IEC 8859 ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. ...

series of ASCII-based standard

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s, first edition published in 1998. It is informally referred to as Latin-8 or ''Celtic''. It was designed to cover the

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, such as

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, Manx,

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, Cornish, and

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. ISO-8859-14 is the

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preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the

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from

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. CeltScript made an extension for Windows called Extended Latin-8. Microsoft has assigned code page 28604 a.k.a. Windows-28604 to ISO-8859-14.

History

ISO-8859-14 was originally proposed for the

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. ISO 8859-12 was proposed for Celtic. Later, ISO 8859-12 was proposed for

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, so the Celtic proposal was changed to ISO 8859-14. The Sami proposal was changed to

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, but it got rejected as an ISO/IEC 8859 part, although it was registered as

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. The original proposal used a different arrangement of points 0xA1–BF. At the committee draft stage of the specification, a

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was included at 0xAE, which was changed to a registered trademark sign (matching

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 ...

) in the final publication.

ISO-IR-182 ISO-IR-182 is a Welsh variant of ISO/IEC 8859-1 that supports the Welsh language. However, it lacks the letters used in the Irish language (which are in ISO/IEC 8859-14 ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded ...

, an earlier (registered in 1994) modification of

, had added the letters Ẁ, Ẃ, Ẅ, Ỳ, Ÿ, Ŵ, Ŷ and their lowercase forms (except for ÿ, which was already included) for

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use. The final published version of ISO-8859-14 includes these letters in the same positions which they appear at in ISO-IR-182.

Codepage layout

Differences from

have the Unicode code point number below the character.

Draft layout

The first draft had positions A0-BF different. It did not include the pilcrow sign, but included the cent sign instead at its Latin-1 position. Later, it was ruled that the pilcrow sign was more common, so the pilcrow sign remains at its Latin-1 position, and the cent sign was removed instead. Differences from ISO-8859-14 have the Unicode code point below them.

References

External links

ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998ISO-IR 199
Celtic Supplementary Latin Set ''(May 1, 1998, submitted by Irish body NSAI/AGITS/WG6)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:ISO IEC 8859-14 ISO/IEC 8859 Computer-related introductions in 1998