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 | + | '''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) (plus the [[ASCII]] control characters of the [[C0 controls]]), as well as additional characters in the range 128-159, which in ISO 8859 is reserved for control characters of the [[C1 controls]]. 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. | ||
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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) (plus the ASCII control characters of the C0 controls), as well as additional characters in the range 128-159, which in ISO 8859 is reserved for control characters of the C1 controls. 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.
