Windows-1253

Also known as Code page 1253, CP1253

Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 or abbreviated as cp1253, is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek.

Described at

Code page 1253, Generic (SYSTEM_1253) - IBM Documentation

This is the collation table for code page 1253 databases with SYSTEM collation, and for Unicode databases with SYSTEM_1253 collation.

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described at URL: iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/windows-1253

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It is not fully compatible with ISO 8859-7 because a few characters, including the letter Ά, are located at different byte values: µ and ¶ are added at their locations from Windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1 (0xB5 and 0xB6). This collides with the locations of ΅ and Ά, respectively, in ISO 8859-7. ‘ and ’ are moved from their ISO 8859-7 locations (0xA1 and 0xA2) to their Windows-1252 locations (0x91 and 0x92). The displaced ΅ and Ά are moved to the vacated space at 0xA1 and 0xA2 respectively. ¤ and ¥ are added at their locations from Windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1 (0xA4 and 0xA5). This collides with additions made to ISO 8859-7 in 2003, when € and ₯ respectively were added to the same locations. The € was added to Windows-1253 at 0x80, the same location which it was added to in Windows-1252. An iota subscript (ͺ) was also added to ISO 8859-7 at 0xAA; this remains unallocated in Windows-1253. Several further characters are added at their Windows-1252 locations, although the rest do not collide with ISO 8859-7.