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Windows-1252

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

Key facts

Character encoding.lang: All supported by ISO/IEC 8859-1 plus full support for French and Finnish and ligature forms for English; e.g. Danish (except for a rare exceptional letter), Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, German (missing uppercase ẞ), Icelandic, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Albanian, Estonian, Swahili, Tswana, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Rotokas, Toki Pona, Lojban, Romansh, Dutch (except the Ĳ/ĳ character, substituted by IJ/ij or ÿ), and Slovene (except the č character, substituted by ç). Some languages lack their standard quotation marks (such as German „quotes“).
Character encoding.extends: ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)
Character encoding.next: Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)
Character encoding.encodes: ISO 8859-15
Character encoding.classification: extended ASCII, Windows-125x
Character encoding.name: Windows-1252
Character encoding.mime: windows-1252
Character encoding.image: Windows-1252-infobox.svgclass=skin-invert-image
Character encoding.alias: cp1252 (code page 1252)
Character encoding.by: Microsoft
Character encoding.standard: WHATWG Encoding Standard

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Name
History
Code page layout
Related encodings
{{anchor|CP1004}}OS/2 extensions
{{anchor|GrCP1252}}MS-DOS extensions (rare)
See also
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Initially the same as ISO 8859-1, it began to diverge starting in Windows 2.0 by adding additional characters in the 0x80 to 0x9F (hex) range (the ISO standards reserve this range for C1 control codes). Notable additional characters include curly quotation marks and all printable characters from ISO 8859-15.