Latin1¶
Latin1, also called ISO/IEC 8859-1 and iso-8859-1, is a character encoding.
In simple terms Latin-1 lets computers represent common Western European characters like letters (A–Z, a–z), numbers (0–9), punctuation, and special characters like é, ñ, ö, ç, £, €.
Latin1 uses 1 byte per character. It can represent 256 characters. It is designed for Western European languages like English, French, Spanish, German and Dutch. These language are not totally covered by the Latin1: usually, it requires the usage of UTF-8.
PHP used Latin1 as the default character set for publishing text on the web. It has now replaced it with UTF-8.
See also ASCII / ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Table with HTML Entity Names.
