Windows encodings

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Revision as of 17:10, 25 January 2018

File Format
Name Windows encodings
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Windows encodings refers to the various legacy character encodings used by the non-Unicode Microsoft Windows API, and most non-Unicode-aware Windows applications. (GUI applications, anyway. Windows console applications default to using the MS-DOS encodings in many cases.)

In Windows jargon, these encodings are misleadingly called "ANSI", or in some cases (also somewhat misleadingly), "multi-byte" encodings.

All too many file formats use one of these encodings, with no reliable way to determine which one.

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