<s>
ISO/IEC	O
8859-15:1999	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
15	O
:	O
Latin	O
alphabet	O
No	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
9	B-Application
,	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
1999	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
informally	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
Latin-9	O
(	O
and	O
for	O
a	O
while	O
Latin-0	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ISO-8859-15	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
28605	O
a.k.a.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	O
has	O
assigned	O
code	B-General_Concept
page	I-General_Concept
923	I-General_Concept
(	O
CCSID	O
923	O
)	O
to	O
ISO	O
8859-15	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ironically	O
,	O
the	O
last	O
three	O
had	O
already	O
been	O
present	O
in	O
DEC	O
's	O
Multinational	O
Character	B-General_Concept
Set	I-General_Concept
(	O
MCS	O
)	O
in	O
1983	O
,	O
a	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
from	O
which	O
ECMA-94	O
(	O
1985	O
)	O
and	O
ISO-8859-1	O
(	O
1987	O
)	O
were	O
derived	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
currency	O
sign	O
is	O
used	O
in	O
some	O
applications	O
as	O
a	O
field	B-Protocol
separator	I-Protocol
and	O
in	O
some	O
others	O
to	O
indicate	O
subtotal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
person	O
said	O
"	O
The	O
proposed	O
«+	O
-	O
»	O
is	O
not	O
an	O
adequate	O
fall-back	O
,	O
as	O
this	O
sequence	O
,	O
though	O
rarely	O
used	O
,	O
has	O
already	O
a	O
fixed	O
mathematical	O
meaning	O
,	O
quite	O
different	O
from	O
«±»	O
;	O
and	O
,	O
even	O
if	O
a	O
reader	O
would	O
deduce	O
the	O
intended	O
meaning	O
,	O
«±»	O
,	O
from	O
the	O
context	O
,	O
«+	O
-	O
»	O
in	O
lieu	O
of	O
«±»	O
will	O
hurt	O
a	O
physicist	O
's	O
æsthetic	O
feelings	O
at	O
least	O
as	O
much	O
as	O
«	O
oe»	O
in	O
lieu	O
of	O
an	O
o-e	O
ligature	O
a	O
Francophone	O
's	O
..	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
were	O
attempts	O
to	O
make	O
ISO	O
8859-15	O
the	O
default	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
for	O
8-bit	O
communication	O
,	O
but	O
it	O
was	O
never	O
able	O
to	O
supplant	O
the	O
popular	O
ISO	O
8859-1	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
did	O
see	O
some	O
use	O
as	O
the	O
default	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
for	O
the	O
text	O
console	O
and	O
terminal	O
programs	O
under	O
Linux	O
when	O
the	O
euro	O
sign	O
was	O
needed	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
full	O
Unicode	O
was	O
not	O
practical	O
,	O
but	O
this	O
has	O
since	O
been	O
replaced	O
with	O
UTF-8	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
9	B-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
is	O
used	O
throughout	O
the	O
Americas	O
,	O
Western	O
Europe	O
,	O
Oceania	O
,	O
and	O
much	O
of	O
Africa	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
some	O
languages	O
listed	O
above	O
,	O
the	O
correct	O
typographical	O
quotation	O
marks	O
are	O
missing	O
,	O
since	O
only	O
«	O
,	O
»	O
,	O
"	O
,	O
and	O
'	B-Language
are	O
included	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
,	O
this	O
encoding	O
does	O
not	O
provide	O
the	O
correct	O
character	O
for	O
the	O
apostrophe	B-Language
,	O
and	O
oriented	O
single	O
high	O
quotation	O
marks	O
,	O
although	O
some	O
texts	O
use	O
the	O
spacing	O
grave	O
accent	O
and	O
spacing	O
acute	O
accent	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
both	O
part	O
of	O
ISO	O
8859-1	O
,	O
instead	O
of	O
the	O
6-shaped/9	O
-shaped	O
quotations	O
marks	O
or	O
apostrophes	B-Language
(	O
and	O
this	O
works	O
reliably	O
with	O
some	O
font	O
styles	O
,	O
where	O
all	O
these	O
characters	O
are	O
displayed	O
as	O
slanted	O
wedge	O
glyphs	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
