[Sven Luther] > as iso8859-1 is called latin1, i suppose it just makes sense to name > iso8859-15 latin15 ? Not really. There is almost, but not quite, a direct mapping from ISO-8859-<n> to latin<n>. If I recall correctly, at least ISO-8859-11 is called latin9 for historical reasons, so you can not assume a direct mapping.