ISO/IEC 8859-14

ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 14: Latin alphabet No. 8 (Celtic), is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998. It is informally referred to as Latin-8 or Celtic. It was designed to cover the Celtic languages, such as Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.

ISO/IEC 8859-14

MIME / IANA	ISO-8859-14
Alias(es)	iso-ir-199, latin8, iso-celtic, l8[1]
Language(s)	Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, English
Standard	ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998
Classification	ISO/IEC 8859 (Extended ASCII, ISO/IEC 4873 level 1)
Extends	US-ASCII
Based on	ISO-IR-182
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ISO-8859-14 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. 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.^[2] FreeDOS assigned code page 58163 to ISO-8859-14.^[3]

History

ISO-8859-14 was originally proposed for the Sami languages.^[4] ISO 8859-12 was proposed for Celtic.^[5] Later, ISO 8859-12 was proposed for Devanagari, so the Celtic proposal was changed to ISO 8859-14. The Sami proposal was changed to ISO 8859-15,^[6] but it got rejected as an ISO/IEC 8859 part, although it was registered as ISO-IR-197.^[7]

The original proposal used a different arrangement of points 0xA1–BF.^[5] At the committee draft stage of the specification, a dotless i was included at 0xAE,^[8] which was changed to a registered trademark sign (matching ISO-8859-1) in the final publication.

ISO-IR-182, an earlier (registered in 1994) modification of ISO-8859-1, had added the letters Ẁ, Ẃ, Ẅ, Ỳ, Ÿ, Ŵ, Ŷ and their lowercase forms (except for ÿ, which was already included) for Welsh language use.^[9] 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 ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number below the character.

ISO/IEC 8859-14^[10][11]

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9

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1x

2x

SP

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"

#

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%

&

'

(

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*

+

,

-

.

/

3x

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1

2

3

4

5

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7

8

9

:

;

<

=

>

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4x

@

A

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E

F

G

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I

J

K

L

M

N

O

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P

Q

R

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T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

[

\

]

^

_

6x

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a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

7x

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

{

|

}

~

8x

9x

Ax

NBSP

Ḃ 1E02

ḃ 1E03

£

Ċ 010A

ċ 010B

Ḋ 1E0A

§

Ẁ 1E80

©

Ẃ 1E82

ḋ 1E0B

Ỳ 1EF2

SHY

®

Ÿ 0178

Bx

Ḟ 1E1E

ḟ 1E1F

Ġ 0120

ġ 0121

Ṁ 1E40

ṁ 1E41

¶

Ṗ 1E56

ẁ 1E81

ṗ 1E57

ẃ 1E83

Ṡ 1E60

ỳ 1EF3

Ẅ 1E84

ẅ 1E85

ṡ 1E61

Cx

À

Á

Â

Ã

Ä

Å

Æ

Ç

È

É

Ê

Ë

Ì

Í

Î

Ï

Dx

Ŵ 0174

Ñ

Ò

Ó

Ô

Õ

Ö

Ṫ 1E6A

Ø

Ù

Ú

Û

Ü

Ý

Ŷ 0176

ß

Ex

à

á

â

ã

ä

å

æ

ç

è

é

ê

ë

ì

í

î

ï

Fx

ŵ 0175

ñ

ò

ó

ô

õ

ö

ṫ 1E6B

ø

ù

ú

û

ü

ý

ŷ 0177

ÿ

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.

ISO/IEC 8859-14 draft proposal^[5] changed rows only

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

Ax

NBSP

Ḃ 1E02

¢ 00A2

£

ḃ 1E03

Ċ 010A

ċ 010B

§

Ẁ

©

Ẃ

Ṡ 1E60

Ỳ

SHY

®

Ÿ

Bx

Ḋ 1E0A

ḋ 1E0B

Ḟ 1E1E

ḟ 1E1F

Ġ 0120

ġ 0121

Ṁ 1E40

ṁ 1E41

ẁ

Ṗ 1E56

ẃ

ṡ 1E61

ỳ

Ẅ

ẅ

ṗ 1E57

References

1. Character Sets, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 2018-12-12
2. "SheetJS/js-codepage". GitHub. 12 October 2021.
3. "Cpi/CPIISO/Codepage.TXT at master · FDOS/Cpi". GitHub.
4. Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-14 (later 15)".
5. Everson, Michael. "Proposed ISO 8859-12 (later 14)".
6. Everson, Michael (1996-06-19). Proposal for a new part of ISO/IEC 8859: Latin alphabet No. 9 (Sámi).
7. Swedish Institute for Standards (1997-01-24). ISO-IR-197: Sami supplementary Latin set (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ.
8. Everson, Michael (1997-05-05). "ISO/IEC CD 8859-14:1997 — Latin alphabet No. 8 (Celtic)" (Committee Draft).
9. British Standards Institution (1994-03-16). ISO-IR-182: Welsh variant of Latin Alphabet No. 1 (right-hand part) (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ.
10. Kuhn, Markus; Whistler, Ken (1999-07-27). "ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998 to Unicode". 8859 to Unicode mapping tables. Unicode, Inc.
11. International Components for Unicode (ICU), iso-8859_14-1998.ucm, 1999-07-27

External links

• ISO/IEC 8859-14:1998
• ISO-IR 199 Celtic Supplementary Latin Set (May 1, 1998, submitted by Irish body NSAI/AGITS/WG6)