Charset name: ISO-8859-16 Published specification: International Standard -- Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10, ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, 1st ed., International Organization for Standardization, Geneva. http://www.iso.ch/ Person & email address to contact for further information: Markus G. Kuhn University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory J J Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FD United Kingdom Markus.Kuhn&cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ Additional information: Online ISO 10646 mapping table (also part of the printed standard): http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-16.TXT ISO 2022 identification: GZD4 04/02 (ESC 02/08 04/02) G1D6 06/06 (ESC 02/13 06/06) Online entry in the ISO 2375 International Register (ISO IR-6 + ISO IR-226): http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/006.pdf http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/226.pdf Online final ISO draft: http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso8859/fdis8859-16-en.pdf Equivalent National Standard: Romanian Standard SR 14111:1998, Romanian Standards Institution (ASRO). Intended usage: "This set of coded graphic characters is intended for use in data and text processing applications and also for information interchange. The set contains graphic characters used for general purpose applications in typical office environments in at least the following languages: Albanian, Croatian, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latin, Polish, Romanian, and Slovenian. This set of coded graphic characters may be regarded as a version of an 8-bit code according to ISO/IEC 2022 or ISO/IEC 4873 at level 1." [ISO 8859-16:2001(E), p. 1] This charset is suitable for use in MIME text body parts. ISO 8859-16 was primarily designed for single-byte encoding the Romanian language. The UTF-8 charset is the preferred and in today's MIME software more widely implemented encoding suitable for Romanian. (created 2001 August 23) []