ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard
character encoding defined by
ISO. It encodes what it refers to as
Latin alphabet no. 2, consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script, each encoded as a single 8-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following Eastern European languages:
Bosnian,
Croatian,
Czech,
Hungarian,
Polish,
Romanian,
Serbian (in Latin transcription),
Serbocroatian,
Slovak,
Slovenian,
Upper Sorbian[?] and
Lower Sorbian[?].
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