<s>
ISO/IEC	O
8859-2:1999	O
,	O
Information	O
technology	O
—	O
8-bit	O
single-byte	O
coded	O
graphic	O
character	B-General_Concept
sets	I-General_Concept
—	O
Part	O
2	O
:	O
Latin	O
alphabet	O
No	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2	O
,	O
is	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
ISO/IEC	O
8859	O
series	O
of	O
ASCII-based	O
standard	O
character	B-General_Concept
encodings	I-General_Concept
,	O
first	O
edition	O
published	O
in	O
1987	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Note	O
that	O
ISO/IEC	O
8859-2	O
is	O
very	O
different	O
from	O
code	O
page	O
852	O
(	O
MS-DOS	O
Latin	O
2	O
,	O
PC	O
Latin	O
2	O
)	O
which	O
is	O
also	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
"	O
Latin-2	O
"	O
in	O
Czech	O
and	O
Slovak	O
regions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Code	B-General_Concept
page	I-General_Concept
912	I-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
extension	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Almost	O
half	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
the	O
encoding	O
is	O
for	O
Polish	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
's	O
the	O
main	O
legacy	O
encoding	O
for	O
Polish	O
,	O
while	O
virtually	O
all	O
use	O
of	O
it	O
has	O
been	O
replaced	O
by	O
UTF-8	O
(	O
on	O
the	O
web	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ISO-8859-2	O
is	O
the	O
IANA	O
preferred	O
charset	B-General_Concept
name	O
for	O
this	O
standard	O
when	O
supplemented	O
with	O
the	O
C0	O
and	O
C1	O
control	O
codes	O
from	O
ISO/IEC	O
6429	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
has	O
assigned	O
code	O
page	O
28592	O
a.k.a.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
assigned	O
Code	B-General_Concept
page	I-General_Concept
1111	I-General_Concept
to	O
ISO	O
8859-2	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
Romanian	O
,	O
but	O
it	O
is	O
not	O
well	O
suited	O
for	O
that	O
language	O
,	O
due	O
to	O
lacking	O
letters	O
s	B-Language
and	O
t	B-Language
with	O
commas	O
below	O
,	O
although	O
it	O
provides	O
s	B-Language
and	O
t	B-Language
with	O
similar-looking	O
cedillas	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unicode	O
subsequently	O
disunified	O
the	O
comma	O
variants	O
from	O
the	O
cedilla	O
variants	O
,	O
and	O
has	O
since	O
taken	O
the	O
lead	O
for	O
web	O
pages	O
,	O
which	O
however	O
often	O
have	O
s	B-Language
and	O
t	B-Language
with	O
cedilla	O
anyway	O
.	O
</s>
