| ISO 8859-1 | west European languages (Latin-1) |
| ISO 8859-2 | east European languages (Latin-2) |
| ISO 8859-3 | southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3) |
| ISO 8859-4 | Scandinavia/Baltic languages (Latin-4) |
| ISO 8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic |
| ISO 8859-6 | Latin/Arabic |
| ISO 8859-7 | Latin/Greek |
| ISO 8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew |
| ISO 8859-9 | Latin-1 modification for Turkey (Latin-5) |
| ISO 8859-10 | Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6) |
ISO 8859-1 supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
ISO 8859 Latin-1 Character Set
The following table displays the ISO 8859 Latin-1 character set.
The first field is the octal code for the character, the second is the name (patterned after the GNU Emacs naming scheme in the iso-insert.el library), the third is the equivalent TeX command, and the fourth is the character itself (however your terminal may display it).
| Octal | Description | TeX | Character |
| 240 | no-break-space | ||
| 241 | inverted-exclamation-mark | !` | ¡ |
| 242 | cent-sign | ¢ | |
| 243 | pound-sign | \pounds | £ |
| 244 | general-currency-sign | ¤ | |
| 245 | yen-sign | ¥ | |
| 246 | broken-vertical-line | ¦ | |
| 247 | section-sign | \S | * |
| 250 | diaeresis | ¨ | |
| 251 | copyright-sign | \copyright | © |
| 252 | ordinal-indicator-feminine | ª | |
| 253 | angle-quotation-mark-left | « | |
| 254 | not-sign | \neg | ¬ |
| 255 | soft-hyphen | | |
| 256 | registered-sign | ® | |
| 257 | macron | ¯ | |
| 260 | degree-sign | ° | |
| 261 | plus-or-minus-sign | \pm | ± |
| 262 | superscript-two | ² | |
| 263 | superscript-three | ³ | |
| 264 | acute-accent | \' | ´ |
| 265 | micro-sign | \mu | µ |
| 266 | pilcrow | \P | ¶ |
| 267 | middle-dot | \cdot | § |
| 270 | cedilla | \c | ¸ |
| 271 | superscript-one | ¹ | |
| 272 | ordinal-indicator-masculine | º | |
| 273 | angle-quotation-mark-right | » | |
| 274 | fraction-one-quarter | ¼ | |
| 275 | fraction-one-half | ½ | |
| 276 | fraction-three-quarters | ¾ | |
| 277 | inverted-question-mark | ?` | ¿ |
| 300 | A-grave | \`{A} | À |
| 301 | A-acute | \'{A} | Á |
| 302 | A-circumflex | \^{A} | Â |
| 303 | A-tilde | \~{A} | Ã |
| 304 | A-umlaut | \"{A} | Ä |
| 305 | A-ring | \AA | Å |
| 306 | AE | \AE | Æ |
| 307 | C-cedilla | \c{C} | Ç |
| 310 | E-grave | \`{E} | È |
| 311 | E-acute | \'{E} | É |
| 312 | E-circumflex | \^{E} | Ê |
| 313 | E-umlaut | \"{E} | Ë |
| 314 | I-grave | \`{I} | Ì |
| 315 | I-acute | \'{I} | Í |
| 316 | I-circumflex | \^{I} | Î |
| 317 | I-umlaut | \"{I} | Ï |
| 320 | D-stroke | Ð | |
| 321 | N-tilde | \~{N} | Ñ |
| 322 | O-grave | \`{O} | Ò |
| 323 | O-acute | \'{O} | Ó |
| 324 | O-circumflex | \^{O} | Ô |
| 325 | O-tilde | \~{O} | Õ |
| 326 | O-umlaut | \"{O} | Ö |
| 327 | multiplication-sign | \times | × |
| 330 | O-slash | Ø | |
| 331 | U-grave | \`{U} | Ù |
| 332 | U-acute | \'{U} | Ú |
| 333 | U-circumflex | \^{U} | Û |
| 334 | U-umlaut | \"{U} | Ü |
| 335 | Y-acute | \'{Y} | Ý |
| 336 | THORN | Þ | |
| 337 | ss | \ss | ß |
| 340 | a-grave | \`{a} | à |
| 341 | a-acute | \'{a} | á |
| 342 | a-circumflex | \^{a} | â |
| 343 | a-tilde | \~{a} | ã |
| 344 | a-umlaut | \"{a} | ä |
| 345 | a-ring | \.{a} | å |
| 346 | ae | \ae | æ |
| 347 | c-cedilla | \c{c} | ç |
| 350 | e-grave | \`{e} | è |
| 351 | e-acute | \'{e} | é |
| 352 | e-circumflex | \^{e} | ê |
| 353 | e-umlaut | \"{e} | ë |
| 354 | i-grave | \`{i} | ì |
| 355 | i-acute | \'{i} | í |
| 356 | i-circumflex | \^{i} | î |
| 357 | i-umlaut | \"{i} | ï |
| 360 | d-stroke | ð | |
| 361 | n-tilde | \~{n} | ñ |
| 362 | o-grave | \`{o} | ò |
| 363 | o-acute | \'{o} | ó |
| 364 | o-circumflex | \^{o} | ô |
| 365 | o-tilde | \~{o} | õ |
| 366 | o-umlaut | \"{o} | ö |
| 367 | division-sign | \div | ÷ |
| 370 | o-slash | ø | |
| 371 | u-grave | \`{u} | ù |
| 372 | u-acute | \'{u} | ú |
| 373 | u-circumflex | \^{u} | û |
| 374 | u-umlaut | \"{u} | ü |
| 375 | y-acute | \'{y} | ý |
| 376 | thorn | þ | |
| 377 | y-umlaut | \"{y} | ÿ |