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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 ISO-8859-15], also known as ISO-Latin-9, is a character set that can be used for most Western European languages.  It is a revision of ISO-8859-1, replacing some less common symbols with the euro sign and some other characters that were missing.  According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859 Wikipedia], the ISO-8859-15 character set covers Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch (except for IJ/ij), English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish, as well as Albanian (Eastern Europe), Afrikaans, and Swahili (Africa). == LaTeX == In LaTeX, the ISO-8859-15 can be used as an input encoding with the
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 ISO-8859-15], also known as ISO-Latin-9, is a character set that can be used for most Western European languages.  It is a revision of ISO-8859-1, replacing some less common symbols with the euro sign and some other characters that were missing.  According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859 Wikipedia], the ISO-8859-15 character set covers Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch (except for IJ/ij), English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish, as well as Albanian (Eastern Europe), Afrikaans, and Swahili (Africa).
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== LaTeX ==
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In LaTeX, the ISO-8859-15 can be used as an input encoding with the <code>inputenc</code> package.  The <code>eurosym</code> package is also needed, in order to produce the Euro symbol in the output.
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<texcode>
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\documentclass{article}
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\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
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\usepackage{eurosym}\def\texteuro{\euro}
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\begin{document}
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c½ur et 100\,¤
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\end{document}
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</texcode>
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== ConTeXt ==
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You can use ISO-8859-15 as an input encoding via the {{cmd|useregime}} and {{cmd|enableregime}} commands.
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<texcode>
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\useregime[il9]
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\enableregime[il9]
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\starttext
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c½ur et 100\,¤
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\stoptext
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</texcode>
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This produces the following output (which unfortunately appears to be broken in this Wiki):
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<context>
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\useregime[il9]
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\enableregime[il9]
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\starttext
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c½ur et 100\,¤
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\stoptext
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</context>
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[[Category:Fonts]]
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[[Category:Languages]]
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[[Category:From LaTeX]]

Latest revision as of 13:26, 9 August 2020

ISO-8859-15, also known as ISO-Latin-9, is a character set that can be used for most Western European languages. It is a revision of ISO-8859-1, replacing some less common symbols with the euro sign and some other characters that were missing. According to Wikipedia, the ISO-8859-15 character set covers Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch (except for IJ/ij), English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, and Swedish, as well as Albanian (Eastern Europe), Afrikaans, and Swahili (Africa).

LaTeX

In LaTeX, the ISO-8859-15 can be used as an input encoding with the inputenc package. The eurosym package is also needed, in order to produce the Euro symbol in the output.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{eurosym}\def\texteuro{\euro}
\begin{document}
c½ur et 100\,¤
\end{document}

ConTeXt

You can use ISO-8859-15 as an input encoding via the \useregime and \enableregime commands.

\useregime[il9]
\enableregime[il9]
\starttext
c½ur et 100\,¤
\stoptext

This produces the following output (which unfortunately appears to be broken in this Wiki):