Officially named
ISO-8859-1, a standard
character set developed by the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO Latin-1 is a superset of the ASCII character set and is very similar to the
ANSI character set used in
Windows, though the two are not identical. Both the
HTTP and
HTML protocols used on the
World Wide Web are based on ISO Latin-1. This means that to represent non-
ASCII characters on a Web page, you need to use the corresponding ISO Latin-1 code.