ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7'', is part of the

ISO/IEC 8859 ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint International Organization for Standardization, ISO and International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC ...

series of ASCII-based standard

character encoding Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. The numerical v ...

s, first edition published in 1998. It is informally referred to as Latin-7 or ''Baltic Rim''. It was designed to cover the

Baltic languages The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people

, and added characters used in Polish missing from the earlier encodings

ISO 8859-4 ISO/IEC 8859-4:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988. I ...

and

ISO 8859-10 ISO/IEC 8859-10:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1992. ...

. Unlike these two, it does not cover the Nordic languages. It is similar to the earlier-published

Windows-1257 Windows-1257 (Windows Baltic) is an 8-bit, single-byte extended ASCII code page used to support the Estonian (which also used in Windows-1252), Latvian and Lithuanian languages under Microsoft Windows. In Lithuania, it is standardised as LST 15 ...

; its encoding of the Estonian alphabet also matches IBM-922. This is also known as Latvian standard LVS 8. ISO-8859-13 is the

IANA The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet P ...

preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the

C0 and C1 control codes The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII. The codes represent additional information about the text, such as the position of a cursor, ...

from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28603 a.k.a. Windows-28603 to ISO-8859-13. IBM has assigned code page 921 to ISO-8859-13 until that code page was extended. ISO-IR 206 (code page 901, later extended) replaces the currency sign at position A4 with the euro sign (€).

Codepage layout

Differences from

ISO-8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology—8-bit computing, 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character (computing), character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character enc ...

have the Unicode code point number below the character.

References

External links

ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998
!--http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n451.pdf--> - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7 ''(draft dated April 15, 1998, published October 15, 1998)''
ISO-IR 179
Baltic Rim Supplementary Set ''(April 1, 1993)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:ISO IEC 8859-13 ISO/IEC 8859 Computer-related introductions in 1998 Baltic languages