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TheCork (also known asT1 orEC) encoding is acharacter encoding used for encodingglyphs infonts.^[1] It is named after the city ofCork inIreland, where during aTeX Users Group (TUG) conference in 1990 a new encoding was introduced forLaTeX.^[1] It contains 256 characters supporting most west- and east-European languages with theLatin alphabet.^[2]

In 8-bitTeX engines the font encoding has to match the encoding ofhyphenation patterns where this encoding is most commonly used.^[3] InLaTeX one can switch to this encoding with\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, while inConTeXt MkII this is the default encoding already. In modern engines such asXeTeX andLuaTeX Unicode is fully supported and the 8-bit font encodings are obsolete.

• Hexadecimal values under the characters in the table are the Unicode character codes.
• The first 12 characters are often used ascombining characters.

The encoding supports most European languages written in Latin alphabet. Notable exceptions are:

• Esperanto andMaltese language (using IL3)
• Latvian language andLithuanian language (using L7X)
• Welsh language

Languages with slightly suboptimal support include:

• Galician language,Portuguese language andSpanish language – due to the lack of charactersª andº, which arenot superscript versions of lowercase "a" and "o" (superscripts are thinner) and they are often underlined
• Croatian language,Bosnian language,Serbian language – due to the shared use of the slot forĐ
• Turkish language – due todotless i having different uppercase and lowercase combinations than in other languages

• Encoding file
• Overview of encodings in LaTeX

• Character encoding
• Character sets
• TeX

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