ISO-8859-1
What does ISO-8859-1 mean?
Definition
ISO 8859-1 is a character encoding standard that defines a set of 256 characters, including the 26 alphabet letters (A-Z and a-z), numerals (0-9), punctuation marks, and symbols. It is widely used for encoding Western European languages and is considered the default character encoding for the World Wide Web. It is also known as ISO Latin-1.