ISO-IR-197


ISO-IR-197 is an 8-bit, single-byte character encoding which was designed for the Sámi languages. It is a modification of ISO 8859-1, replacing certain punctuation and symbol characters with additional letters used in certain Sámi orthographies. FreeDOS calls it code page 59187.
ISO-IR-197 was proposed for establishment as a part of ISO/IEC 8859 in 1996, but was not accepted for this. However, ISO-IR-197 is referenced in an informative ISO/IEC 8859 annex, which lists it as an encoding which provides a more adequate coverage of the orthography of certain Sámi languages such as Skolt Sámi than ISO-8859-4 or ISO-8859-10, unless the latter is combined with ISO-IR-158.

Code page layout

Differences from ISO 8859-1 have their Unicode code point.

Windows extension

As documented by Evertype, some Windows implementations use a variant which adds graphical characters to the C1 area, including some of the other characters from the Mac OS Sámi repertoire. This was intended to be analogous to the Windows version of Latin-1, and follows its layout where possible. Differences from Windows-1252 have their Unicode code point:

ISO-IR-209

ISO-IR-209 is an update that replaced the guillemets at 0xAB and 0xBB with the letter H with caron to add Finnish Romani support. FreeDOS calls it Code page 60211.