Legacy Character Set: ISO-8859 for Europe (1)
- ASCII usually stored in 8-bit (byte) units, 8th bit unused
- Use 8th-bit: 256 characters
- 4 character sets defined by the ECMA: West/East/North/South Europe
- Contain characters for multiple languages
- Superset of ASCII: new characters at 0x80 - 0xff,
0x00 - 0x7f unchanged