ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, is a joint
ISO and
IEC standard for 8-bit
character encodings for use by computers. The standard is divided into numbered, separately published parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc., each of which may be informally referred to as a standard in itself. There are currently 15 parts
as of 2006 excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12 standard.
See more at Wikipedia.org...