Windows-1252
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Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.
Key facts
- Character encoding.lang
- All supported by ISO/IEC 8859-1 plus full support for French and Finnish and ligature forms for English; e.g. Danish (except for a rare exceptional letter), Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, German (missing uppercase ẞ), Icelandic, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Albanian, Estonian, Swahili, Tswana, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Rotokas, Toki Pona, Lojban, Romansh, Dutch (except the IJ/ij character, substituted by IJ/ij or ÿ), and Slovene (except the č character, substituted by ç). Some languages lack their standard quotation marks (such as German „quotes“).
- Character encoding.extends
- ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)
- Character encoding.next
- Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)
- Character encoding.encodes
- ISO 8859-15
- Character encoding.classification
- extended ASCII, Windows-125x
- Character encoding.name
- Windows-1252
- Character encoding.mime
- windows-1252
- Character encoding.image
- Windows-1252-infobox.svgclass=skin-invert-image
- Character encoding.alias
- cp1252 (code page 1252)
- Character encoding.by
- Microsoft
- Character encoding.standard
- WHATWG Encoding Standard
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Windows-1252.svg
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/cp1252
- Commons category
- Windows-1252
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Code page layout
- Related encodings
- {{anchor|CP1004}}OS/2 extensions
- {{anchor|GrCP1252}}MS-DOS extensions (rare)
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.
Initially the same as ISO 8859-1, it began to diverge starting in Windows 2.0 by adding additional characters in the 0x80 to 0x9F (hex) range (the ISO standards reserve this range for C1 control codes). Notable additional characters include curly quotation marks and all printable characters from ISO 8859-15.