The ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, standard is divided into
numbered, separately published parts, such as as ISO/IEC 8859-1,
ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc., each of which may be informally referred to as a
standard in itself. There are currently 15 parts as of 2006 excluding
the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12 standard:
| Part 1 | Latin-1 Western European |
| Part 2 | Latin-2 Central European |
| Part 3 | Latin-3 South European |
| Part 4 | Latin-4 North European |
| Part 5 | Latin/Cyrillic |
| Part 6 | Latin/Arabic |
| Part 7 | Latin/Greek |
| Part 8 | Latin/Hebrew |
| Part 9 | Latin-5 Turkish |
| Part 10 | Latin-6 Nordic |
| Part 11 | Latin/Thai |
| Part 13 | Latin-7 Baltic Rim |
| Part 14 | Latin-8 Celtic |
| Part 15 | Latin-9 |
| Part 16 | Latin-10 |