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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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[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
 
 
== LaTeX ==
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
<texcode>
 
\documentclass{article}
 
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
 
\usepackage{eurosym}\def\texteuro{\euro}
 
\begin{document}
 
c½ur et 100\,¤
 
\end{document}
 
</texcode>
 
 
 
== ConTeXt ==
 
 
 
You can use ISO-8859-15 as an input encoding via the <cmd>useregime</cmd> and <cmd>enableregime</cmd> commands.
 
 
 
<texcode>
 
\useregime[il9]
 
\enableregime[il9]
 
\starttext
 
c½ur et 100\,¤
 
\stoptext
 
</texcode>
 
 
 
This produces the following output (which unfortunately appears to be broken in this Wiki):
 
 
 
<context>
 
\useregime[il9]
 
\enableregime[il9]
 
\starttext
 
c½ur et 100\,¤
 
\stoptext
 
</context>
 
 
 
[[Category:Fonts]]
 
[[Category:International]]
 
[[Category:From LaTeX]]
 

Revision as of 00:33, 24 March 2006

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