Windows-1250

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Windows-1250
MIME / IANAwindows-1250
Alias(es)cp1250 (Code page 1250)
Language(s) Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Montenegrin, Romanian (before 1993 spelling reform), Turkmen, Rotokas, Albanian, English, German, Irish, Luxembourgish, Dutch
Created by Microsoft
Standard WHATWG Encoding Standard
Classification extended ASCII, Windows-125x
Other related encoding(s) ISO-8859-2

Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use the Latin script. It is primarily used by Czech. [1] It is also used for Polish (as can Windows-1257), Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene (as can Windows-1257), Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Romanian (before a 1993 spelling reform) and Albanian (as can Windows-1252). It may also be used with the German language, though it's missing uppercase ẞ. [lower-alpha 1] German-language texts encoded with Windows-1250 and Windows-1252 are identical.

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This has been replaced by UTF-8 far more than Windows-1252 has. As of October 2022, less than 0.04% of all web pages use Windows-1250. [2] [3] [4]

Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place). Most of the rearrangements seem to have been done to keep characters shared with Windows-1252 in the same place but three of the characters moved (Ą, Ľ, ź) cannot be explained this way, since those do not occur in Windows-1252 and could have been put in the same positions as in ISO-8859-2 if ˇ had been put e.g. at 9F.

IBM uses code page 1250 (CCSID 1250 and euro sign extended CCSID 5346) for Windows-1250. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Character set

The following table shows Windows-1250. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent.

Windows-1250 [12]
0123456789ABCDEF
0x NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1x DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2x  SP   ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8x € ‚ „ … † ‡ ‰ Š ‹ Ś Ť Ž Ź
9x ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ š › ś ť ž ź
Ax NBSP ˇ ˘ Ł ¤ Ą ¦ § ¨ © Ş « ¬ SHY ® Ż
Bx ° ± ˛ ł ´ µ · ¸ ą ş » Ľ ˝ ľ ż
Cx Ŕ Á Â Ă Ä Ĺ Ć Ç Č É Ę Ë Ě Í Î Ď
Dx Đ Ń Ň Ó Ô Ő Ö × Ř Ů Ú Ű Ü Ý Ţ ß
Ex ŕ á â ă ä ĺ ć ç č é ę ë ě í î ď
Fx đ ń ň ó ô ő ö ÷ ř ů ú ű ü ý ţ ˙
  Different from ISO-8859-2
  Different from Windows-1252 to match ISO-8859-2
  Different from both Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-2

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ In 2017, the Council for German Orthography officially adopted a capital, ⟨ẞ⟩, before support for German was complete. Fully compatible with ISO/IEC 8859-1 for German texts.

Related Research Articles

ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1999. It is informally referred to as Latin-9. It is similar to ISO 8859-1, and thus also intended for “Western European” languages, but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some letters that were deemed necessary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Windows-1252</span> Windows character set for Latin alphabet

Windows-1252 or CP-1252 is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.

ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions. Almost half the use of the encoding is for Polish, and it's the main legacy encoding for Polish, while virtually all use of it has been replaced by UTF-8.

ISO/IEC 8859-8, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings. ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999 from 1999 represents its second and current revision, preceded by the first edition ISO/IEC 8859-8:1988 in 1988. It is informally referred to as Latin/Hebrew. ISO/IEC 8859-8 covers all the Hebrew letters, but no Hebrew vowel signs. IBM assigned code page 916 to it. This character set was also adopted by Israeli Standard SI1311:2002, with some extensions.

ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Arabic. It was designed to cover Arabic. Only nominal letters are encoded, no preshaped forms of the letters, so shaping processing is required for display. It does not include the extra letters needed to write most Arabic-script languages other than Arabic itself.

ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as Latin/Greek. It was designed to cover the modern Greek language. The original 1987 version of the standard had the same character assignments as the Greek national standard ELOT 928, published in 1986. The table in this article shows the updated 2003 version which adds three characters. Microsoft has assigned code page 28597 a.k.a. Windows-28597 to ISO-8859-7 in Windows. IBM has assigned code page 813 to ISO 8859-7. (IBM CCSID 813 is the original encoding. CCSID 4909 adds the euro sign. CCSID 9005 further adds the drachma sign and ypogegrammeni.)

ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1989. It is designated ECMA-128 by Ecma International and TS 5881 as a Turkish standard. It is informally referred to as Latin-5 or Turkish. It was designed to cover the Turkish language, designed as being of more use than the ISO/IEC 8859-3 encoding. It is identical to ISO/IEC 8859-1 except for the replacement of six Icelandic characters with characters unique to the Turkish alphabet. And the uppercase of i is İ; the lowercase of I is ı.

Windows-1258 is a code page used in Microsoft Windows to represent Vietnamese texts. It makes use of combining diacritical marks.

Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian and other languages.

Windows code page 1253, 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.

Windows-1254 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows, to write Turkish that it was designed for. Characters with codepoints A0 through FF are compatible with ISO 8859-9, but the CR range, which is reserved for C1 control codes in ISO 8859, is instead used for additional characters. It matches Windows-1252 except for the replacement of six Icelandic characters with characters unique to the Turkish alphabet.

Windows-1255 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Hebrew. It is an almost compatible superset of ISO-8859-8 – most of the symbols are in the same positions, but Windows-1255 adds vowel-points and other signs in lower positions.

Windows-1256 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu.

Windows-1257 is an 8-bit, single-byte extended ASCII code page used to support the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages under Microsoft Windows. In Lithuania, it is standardised as LST 1590-3, alongside a modified variant named LST 1590-4.

Code page 852 is a code page used under DOS to write Central European languages that use Latin script.

Mac OS Central European is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in Central European and Southeastern European languages that use the Latin script. This encoding is also known as Code Page 10029. IBM assigns code page/CCSID 1282 to this encoding. This codepage contains diacritical letters that ISO 8859-2 does not have, and vice versa.

Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.

Code page 912 is a code page used under IBM AIX and DOS to write the Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and Slovene languages. It is an extension of ISO/IEC 8859-2, though prior to 1999, the code page matched ISO/IEC 8859-2 exactly.

Code page 921 is a code page used under IBM AIX and DOS to write the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian languages. It is an extension of ISO/IEC 8859-13. The original code page matched ISO/IEC 8859-13 directly.

Code page 922 is a code page used under IBM AIX and DOS to write the Estonian language. It is an extension and modification of ISO/IEC 8859-1, where the letters Ð/ð and Þ/þ used for Icelandic are replaced by the letters Š/š and Ž/ž respectively. This matches the encoding of these letters in Windows-1257 and ISO/IEC 8859-13.

References

  1. ↑ "Distribution of Content Languages among websites that use Windows-1250". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  2. ↑ "Historical trends in the usage of character encodings for websites, October 2022". w3techs.com.
  3. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions". w3techs.com.
  4. ↑ "Distribution of Character Encodings among websites that use Czech". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  5. ↑ "Code page 1250 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  6. ↑ "CCSID 1250 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
  7. ↑ "CCSID 5346 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
  8. ↑ Code Page CPGID 01250 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  9. ↑ Code Page CPGID 01250 (txt), IBM
  10. ↑ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1250_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03
  11. ↑ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-5346_P100-1998.ucm, 2002-12-03
  12. ↑ Steele, Shawn (1998), CP1250 to Unicode table, Unicode Consortium, CP1250.TXT
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