The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
ISO 8859 ISO 8859-1 ISO Latin 1 Latin 1ISO/IEC's set of 8-bit coded graphic character sets for European languages. Part 1 (full name: "ISO 8859-1:1987 Information processing -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1") is a common extension of, and replacement for, ASCII. ISO shop (http://iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28245). (2001-12-28)