Windows-1252

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Windows-1252
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MIME / IANAwindows-1252 [1]
Alias(es)cp1252 (code page 1252)
Language(s)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).
Created by Microsoft
Standard WHATWG Encoding Standard
Classification extended ASCII, Windows-125x
Extends ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)
Transforms / Encodes ISO 8859-15

Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. This character-encoding scheme is used 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.

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Windows NT supported Unicode, but using the 16-bit code units of UCS-2/UTF-16. Due to issues relating to the interoperability of 16-bit code units in strings, many applications preferred to use 8-bit code pages, and Windows-1252 remained the most popular one on Windows.

It is the most-used single-byte character encoding in the world. As of April 2024, 1.2% [2] of all web sites declare ISO 8859-1 which is treated as Windows-1252 by all modern browsers (as demanded by the HTML5 standard [3] ), plus 0.3% of all websites declared use of Windows-1252, [2] [4] for a total of 1.5% (also measured as 15 of the top 1000 websites [5] ). Some countries or languages show a higher usage than the global average, in 2024 Brazil according to website use, use is at 3.8%, [6] and in Germany at 2.8%. [7] [8] (these are the sums of ISO-8859-1 and CP-1252 declarations).

Details

This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 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. It is known to Windows by the code page number 1252, and by the IANA-approved name "windows-1252".

Starting in the 1990s, many Microsoft products that could produce HTML included Windows-1252-exclusive characters, but marked the encoding as ISO-8859-1, ASCII, or undeclared.[ citation needed ] Characters exclusive to Windows-1252 would often render incorrectly on non-Windows operating systems (often as question marks, blanks, or boxes). [9] [10] In particular, typographers' quotes — curly variants of the standard straight apostrophes and quotation marks in US-ASCII — were commonly used in files produced in Windows applications such as Microsoft Word due to the smart quotes feature, which can automatically convert straight apostrophes and quotation marks to the curly variants. [11] To fix this, by 2000 most web browsers and e-mail clients treated the charsets ISO-8859-1 and US-ASCII as Windows-1252[ citation needed ] — this behavior is now required by the HTML5 specification. [3] Undeclared charsets in HTML are also assumed to be Windows-1252. [12]

Historically, the phrase "ANSI Code Page" was used in Windows to refer to non-DOS encodings; the intention was that most of these would be ANSI standards such as ISO-8859-1. Even though Windows-1252 was the first and by far most popular code page named so in Microsoft Windows parlance, the code page has never been an ANSI standard. Microsoft explains, "The term ANSI as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community." [13]

In LaTeX packages, CP-1252 is referred to as "ansinew".

IBM uses code page 1252 (CCSID 1252 and euro sign extended CCSID 5348) for Windows-1252. [14] [15] [16]

It is called "WE8MSWIN1252" by Oracle Database. [17]

Codepage layout

The following table shows Windows-1252. Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number below the character, based on the Unicode.org mapping of Windows-1252 with "best fit". A tooltip, generally available only when one points to the immediate left of the character, shows the Unicode code point name and the decimal Alt code.

Windows-1252 (CP1252) [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
0123456789ABCDEF
0_ NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1_ DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2_  SP   ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3_ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4_ @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5_ P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6_ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7_ p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8_ €
20AC		 ‚
201A		 ƒ
0192		 „
201E		 …
2026		 †
2020		 ‡
2021		 ˆ
02C6		 ‰
2030		 Š
0160		 ‹
2039		 Œ
0152		 Ž
017D
9_ ‘
2018		 ’
2019		 “
201C		 ”
201D		 •
2022		 –
2013		 —
2014		 ˜
02DC		 ™
2122		 š
0161		 ›
203A		 œ
0153		 ž
017E		 Ÿ
0178
A_ NBSP ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ SHY ® ¯
B_ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
C_ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
D_ Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
E_ à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
F_ ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ

  According to the information on Microsoft's and the Unicode Consortium's websites, positions 81, 8D, 8F, 90, and 9D are unused; however, the Windows API MultiByteToWideChar maps these to the corresponding C1 control codes. The "best fit" mapping documents this behavior, too. [18]

History

OS/2 extensions

The OS/2 operating system supports an encoding by the name of Code page 1004 (CCSID 1004) or "Windows Extended". [23] [24] This mostly matches code page 1252, with the exception of certain C0 control characters being replaced by diacritic characters.

Code page 1004 (differing rows only) [25] [26] [27] [28]
0123456789ABCDEF
0_ NUL SOH STX ETX ˉ
02C9		˘
02D8		˙
02D9		 BEL ˚
02DA		 HT ˝
02DD		˛
02DB		ˇ
02C7		 CR SO SI

MSDOS extensions [rare]

There is a rarely used, but useful, graphics extended code page 1252 where codes 0x00 to 0x1f allow for box drawing as used in applications such as MSDOS Edit and Codeview. One of the applications to use this code page was an Intel Corporation Install/Recovery disk image utility from mid/late 1995. These programs were written for its P6 User Test Program machines (US example [29] ). It was used exclusively in its then EMEA region (Europe, Middle East & Africa). In time the programs were changed to use code page 850.

Graphics Extended Code Page 1252[ citation needed ]
0123456789ABCDEF
0_○■↑↓→←║═╔╗╚╝░▒►◄
1_│─┌┐└┘├┤┴┬♦┼█▄▀▬

Palm OS variant

Each Palm OS device supports a single language and a single character encoding, depending on its locale. [30]

For languages such as English and French, Palm OS uses a custom character encoding based on Windows-1252. For Japanese, it instead uses a multibyte character encoding based on code page 932. Regardless of the system locale, all characters in the range 0x00 to 0x7F are guaranteed to be the same, except 0x5D which is the Yen sign in Japanese and a backslash on all others. [30]

Palm OS 3.1 introduced several changes to the character encoding to better align with Windows-1252: [31]

The following is the variant of Windows-1252 used by Palm OS 3.3 onward for English and several other locales. [32] Python gives it the palmos label, describing it as the encoding for Palm OS 3.5. [34] [35] Differences from Windows-1252 have their Unicode code point.

Palm OS 3.3 character encoding [33] [35]
0123456789ABCDEF
8_ € [lower-alpha 1] ‚ ƒ „ … [lower-alpha 2] † ‡ ˆ ‰ Š ‹ Œ ♦
2666		 ♣
2663		 ♥
2665
9_ ♠
2660		 ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜  ™ š › œ [lower-alpha 3] [lower-alpha 4] Ÿ

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Prior to Palm OS 3.1, the character at code point 0x80 was U+2007 NUMERIC SPACE; starting in Palm OS 3.1, 0x80 is the Euro sign and 0x19 is U+2007 NUMERIC SPACE instead. [32]
  2. ↑ Starting in Palm OS 3.1, this character is also duplicated at 0x18. [lower-alpha 5] [lower-alpha 6]
  3. ↑ Prior to Palm OS 3.3, this code point was the Palm OS-exclusive character "shortcut stroke"; starting in Palm OS 3.3, this code point is undefined. [31] [32]
  4. ↑ Prior to Palm OS 3.3, this code point was the Palm OS-exclusive character "command stroke"; starting in Palm OS 3.3, this code point is undefined. [31] [32]

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