Windows 1252
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| − | + | '''Windows 1252''' is a character encoding used in Microsoft Windows systems, particularly English-langauge installations. It includes all the printable characters of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), as well as additional characters in the range 128-159, which in ISO 8859 is reserved for control characters. It's often falsely claimed to be an ANSI standard. | |
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| − | Windows 1252 is a character encoding used in Microsoft Windows systems, particularly English-langauge installations. It includes all the printable characters of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), as well as additional characters in the range 128-159, which in ISO 8859 is reserved for control characters. It's often falsely claimed to be an ANSI standard. | + | |
Websites and e-mail messages often mistakenly use headers and parameters claiming a document or message to be in ISO-8859-1 when it actually uses characters that are part of Windows 1252. | Websites and e-mail messages often mistakenly use headers and parameters claiming a document or message to be in ISO-8859-1 when it actually uses characters that are part of Windows 1252. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
| − | * | + | * [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195054.aspx Microsoft Windows 1252 code page] |
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Revision as of 05:36, 10 November 2012
Windows 1252 is a character encoding used in Microsoft Windows systems, particularly English-langauge installations. It includes all the printable characters of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), as well as additional characters in the range 128-159, which in ISO 8859 is reserved for control characters. It's often falsely claimed to be an ANSI standard.
Websites and e-mail messages often mistakenly use headers and parameters claiming a document or message to be in ISO-8859-1 when it actually uses characters that are part of Windows 1252.
