![]() ![]() ![]() The ISO/IEC 8859 standard parts only define printable characters, although they explicitly set apart the byte ranges 0x00â1F and 0x7Fâ9F as "combinations that do not represent graphic characters" (i.e. However, more characters were needed than could fit in a single 8-bit character encoding, so several mappings were developed, including at least ten suitable for various Latin alphabets. Early encodings were limited to 7 bits because of restrictions of some data transmission protocols, and partially for historical reasons. ISO/IEC 8859 sought to remedy this problem by utilizing the eighth bit in an 8-bit byte to allow positions for another 96 printable characters. While the bit patterns of the 95 printable ASCII characters are sufficient to exchange information in modern English, most other languages that use Latin alphabets need additional symbols not covered by ASCII. ![]()
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