Windows-1252

Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet (or superset of), that was used by default in e.g. (legacy components of) Microsoft Windows for English and many (European) languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German (missing uppercase ẞ). This character-encoding scheme is used throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa. Windows (and most other operating systems) now uses Unicode character sets by default.

This article is about the character encoding commonly mislabeled as "ANSI". For the actual ANSI character encoding, see ASCII. For the actual "ANSI extended Latin" encoding, see ANSEL.
Windows-1252
MIME / IANAwindows-1252[1]
Alias(es)cp1252 (code page 1252)
Language(s)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, Romansh, Dutch (except the IJ/ij character, substituted by IJ/ÿ), and Slovene (except the č character, substituted by ç).
Created byMicrosoft
StandardWHATWG Encoding Standard
Classificationextended ASCII, Windows-125x
ExtendsISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)
Transforms / EncodesISO 8859-15

It is the most-used single-byte character encoding in the world. As of January 2023, 1.4%[2] of all web sites declare ISO 8859-1 which is treated as Windows-1252 by all modern browsers (as demanded by the HTML5 standard[3]), plus 0.3% of all websites declared use of Windows-1252,[2][4] for a total of 1.7% (and only 16 of the top 1000 websites[5]). Pages declared as ASCII, or a missing or invalid charset, are also assumed to be Windows-1252 by browsers.

Depending on the country or language, use can be much higher than the global average, e.g., for Brazil website use is at 9.2%,[6] and in Germany at 3.9%[7][8] (these are the sums of ISO-8859-1 and CP1252 declarations).

Windows-1252 is often assumed to be the encoding of text in operating systems, in particular on Microsoft Windows;[9] this is only gradually being changed to UTF-8.

Details

This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 by adding additional characters in the 80 to 9F (hex) range (the ISO standards reserve this range for control characters). Notable additional characters include curly quotation marks and all printable characters from ISO 8859-15. It is known to Windows by the code page number 1252, and by the IANA-approved name "windows-1252".

At one stage many Microsoft internet products produced text in Windows-1252 but marked as ISO-8859-1. A result was that all the quotes and apostrophes (produced by "smart quotes") were replaced with question marks or boxes when viewed on non-Windows operating systems. Most modern web browsers and e-mail clients treat the media type charset ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252 to accommodate such mislabeling. This behavior is now required by the HTML5 specification.[3] Browsers appear to treat the charset "ASCII" and missing charsets the same.

Historically, the phrase "ANSI Code Page" was used in Windows to refer to non-DOS encodings; the intention was that most of these would be ANSI standards such as ISO-8859-1. Even though Windows-1252 was the first and by far most popular code page named so in Microsoft Windows parlance, the code page has never been an ANSI standard. Microsoft explains, "The term ANSI as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community."[10]

In LaTeX packages, CP-1252 is referred to as "ansinew".

IBM uses code page 1252 (CCSID 1252 and euro sign extended CCSID 5348) for Windows-1252.[11][12][13]

It is called "WE8MSWIN1252" by Oracle.[14]

Codepage layout

The following table shows Windows-1252. Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number below the character, based on the Unicode.org mapping of Windows-1252 with "best fit". A tooltip, generally available only when one points to the immediate left of the character, shows the Unicode code point name and the decimal Alt code.

Windows-1252 (CP1252)[15][16][17][18][19]
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0_ NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1_ DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2_  SP  ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3_ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4_ @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5_ P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6_ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7_ p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8_ €
20AC		 ‚
201A		 ƒ
0192		 „
201E		 …
2026		 †
2020		 ‡
2021		 ˆ
02C6		 ‰
2030		 Š
0160		 ‹
2039		 Œ
0152		 Ž
017D
9_ ‘
2018		 ’
2019		 “
201C		 ”
201D		 •
2022		 –
2013		 —
2014		 ˜
02DC		 ™
2122		 š
0161		 ›
203A		 œ
0153		 ž
017E		 Ÿ
0178
A_ NBSP ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ SHY ® ¯
B_ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
C_ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
D_ Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
E_ à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
F_ ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ

  According to the information on Microsoft's and the Unicode Consortium's websites, positions 81, 8D, 8F, 90, and 9D are unused; however, the Windows API MultiByteToWideChar maps these to the corresponding C1 control codes. The "best fit" mapping documents this behavior, too.[15]

History
  • The first version of the codepage 1252 used in Microsoft Windows 1.0 did not have positions D7 and F7 defined. All the characters in the ranges 80–9F were undefined too.
  • The second version, used in Microsoft Windows 2.0, positions D7, F7, 91, and 92 had been defined.
  • The third version, used since Microsoft Windows 3.1, had all the present-day positions defined, except euro sign and Z with caron character pair.
  • The final version listed above debuted in Microsoft Windows 98 and was ported to older versions of Windows with the euro symbol update.

OS/2 extensions

The OS/2 operating system supports an encoding by the name of Code page 1004 (CCSID 1004) or "Windows Extended".[20][21] This mostly matches code page 1252, with the exception of certain C0 control characters being replaced by diacritic characters.

Code page 1004 (differing rows only)[22][23][24][25]
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0_ NUL SOH STX ETX ˉ
02C9		 ˘
02D8		 ˙
02D9		 BEL ˚
02DA		 HT ˝
02DD		 ˛
02DB		 ˇ
02C7		 CR SO SI

MSDOS extensions [rare]

There is a rarely used, but useful, graphics extended code page 1252 where codes 0x00 to 0x1f allow for box drawing as used in applications such as MSDOS Edit and Codeview. One of the applications to use this code page was an Intel Corporation Install/Recovery disk image utility from mid/late 1995. These programs were written for its P6 User Test Program machines (US example[26]). It was used exclusively in its then EMEA region (Europe, Middle East & Africa). In time the programs were changed to use code page 850.

Graphics Extended Code Page 1252
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0_ ○ ■ ↑ ↓ → ← ║ ═ ╔ ╗ ╚ ╝ ░ ▒ ► ◄
1_ │ ─ ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ├ ┤ ┴ ┬ ♦ ┼ █ ▄ ▀ ▬

Palm OS variant

This variant of Windows-1252 is used by Palm OS 3.5. Python gives it the palmos label.[27] Differences from Windows-1252 have their Unicode code point.

Palm OS code page[28]
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8_ € ‚ ƒ „ … † ‡ ˆ ‰ Š ‹ Œ ♦
2666		 ♣
2663		 ♥
2665
9_ ♠
2660		 ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜  ™ š › œ Ÿ

See also

References
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  12. "CCSID 1252 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-26.
  13. "CCSID 5348 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
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  17. Code Page CPGID 01252 (txt), IBM
  18. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1252_P100-2000.ucm, 2002-12-03
  19. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-5348_P100-1997.ucm, 2002-12-03
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  23. Code Page CPGID 01004 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  24. Code Page CPGID 01004 (txt), IBM
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