MIME / IANA | ISO-8859-14 |
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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 |
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-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][better source needed] FreeDOS assigned code page 58163 to ISO-8859-14.[3]