Windows-1252
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Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. This character-encoding scheme is used throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa. Initially the same as ISO 8859-1, it began to diverge starting in Windows 2.0.
MIME / IANA | windows-1252[1] |
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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, 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). |
Created by | Microsoft |
Standard | WHATWG Encoding Standard |
Classification | extended ASCII, Windows-125x |
Extends | ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls) |
Transforms / Encodes | ISO 8859-15 |
Windows NT supported Unicode, but using the 16-bit code units of UCS-2/UTF-16. Due to issues relating to the interoperability of 16-bit code units in strings, many applications preferred to use 8-bit code pages, and Windows-1252 remained the most popular one on Windows.
It is the most-used single-byte character encoding in the world. As of April 2024[update], 1.2%[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 1.5% (also measured as 15 of the top 1000 websites[5]). Some countries or languages show a higher usage than the global average, in 2024 Brazil according to website use, use is at 3.8%,[6] and in Germany at 2.8%.[7][8] (these are the sums of ISO-8859-1 and CP-1252 declarations).