Windows 1256

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Name Windows 1256
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Wikidata ID Q825466
IANA charset windows-1256
IANA aliases cswindows1256
IANA MIBenum 2256
Code Page 1256
CFStringEncoding 1286

Windows 1256 (CP1256, Windows-1256, Windows CP1256, Windows Arabic) is a character encoding used in Microsoft Windows systems, aimed at Arabic. It is one of the Windows encodings. It is different from ISO 8859-6. It no longer gets much online use, as Unicode is preferred.

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