ISO 8859-3, also known as Latin-3 or "South European" is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. It was designed originally to cover Turkish, Maltese and Esperanto, though the introduction of ISO 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish.
The encoding remains popular with users of Esperanto, though use is waning as application support for Unicode becomes more common.
As with all varieties of ISO 8859, the lower 7 bits are equivalent to ASCII.
| ISO/IEC 8859-3 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x0 | x1 | x2 | x3 | x4 | x5 | x6 | x7 | x8 | x9 | xA | xB | xC | xD | xE | xF | |
| 0x | unused | |||||||||||||||
| 1x | ||||||||||||||||
| 2x | SP | exclamation mark | double quote | # | dollar sign | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | comma | - | full stop | / |
| 3x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | colon | semicolon | < | = | > | question mark |
| 4x | @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O |
| 5x | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \\ | ] | ^ | _ |
| 6x | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o |
| 7x | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | |
| 8x | unused | |||||||||||||||
| 9x | ||||||||||||||||
| Ax | NBSP | Ħ | ˘ | £ | ¤ | Ĥ | § | ¨ | İ | Ş | Ğ | Ĵ | | Ż | ||
| Bx | ° | ħ | ² | ³ | ´ | µ | ĥ | · | ¸ | ı | ş | ğ | ĵ | ½ | ż | |
| Cx | À | Á | Â | Ä | Ċ | Ĉ | Ç | È | É | Ê | Ë | Ì | Í | Î | Ï | |
| Dx | Ñ | Ò | Ó | Ô | Ġ | Ö | × | Ĝ | Ù | Ú | Û | Ü | Ŭ | Ŝ | ß | |
| Ex | à | á | â | ä | ċ | ĉ | ç | è | é | ê | ë | ì | í | î | ï | |
| Fx | ñ | ò | ó | ô | ġ | ö | ÷ | ĝ | ù | ú | û | ü | ŭ | ŝ | ˙ | |
In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.
Code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-3.
