The C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement block has four subheadings within its character collection: C1 controls, Latin-1 Punctuation and Symbols, Letters, and Mathematical operator(s).
C1 controls The C1 controls subheading contains 32 supplementary control codes inherited from
ISO/IEC 8859-1 and many other 8-bit character standards. The alias names for the C0 and C1 control codes are taken from
ISO/IEC 6429:1992.
Latin-1 punctuation and symbols The Latin-1 Punctuation and Symbols subheading contains 32 characters of common international punctuation characters, such as the inverted question and exclamation marks, a middle dot, and symbols such as currency signs, spacing diacritic marks, vulgar fractions, and superscript numbers.
Letters The Letters subheading contains 30 pairs of majuscule and minuscule accented or novel Latin characters for western European languages, and two extra minuscule characters (
ß and
ÿ) not commonly used as the first letter of words.
Mathematical operator The Mathematical operator subheading is used for the multiplication and division signs. ==Number of symbols, letters and control codes==