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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.

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Alias(es)
cp1252 (code page 1252)
Classification
extended ASCII, Windows-125x
Created by
Microsoft
Extends
ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)
Languages
All supported by ISO/IEC 8859-1 plus full support for French[a] and Finnish and ligature forms for English; e.g. Danish (except for a rare exceptional letter), Irish, Italian, N…
MIME / IANA
windows-1252

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Windows-1252

Nodes54
Edges53
Triples60
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1

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Windows-1252

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related to history · 17
Windows-1252 → ASCII, Characters, HTML, HTML5, In, ISO-8859-1, It, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Starting, The, To, Undeclared, US-ASCII, Windows, Windows-1252-exclusive
related to Name · 12
Windows-1252 → ANSI, ANSI Code Page, DOS, Even, Historically, IANA-approved, ISO-8859-1, It, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, The, Windows
related to Code page layout · 10
Windows-1252 → According, Alt, C1, Differences, ISO-8859-1, Microsoft's, The, Unicode, Unicode Consortium's, Windows APIMultiByteToWideCharmap
related to External links · 5
Windows-1252 → ANSI, Code Page, Microsoft's, Unicode, Windows Latin
Alias(es) · 1
Windows-1252 → cp1252 (code page 1252)
Classification · 1
Windows-1252 → extended ASCII, Windows-125x
Created by · 1
Windows-1252 → Microsoft
Extends · 1
Windows-1252 → ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)
Languages · 1
Windows-1252 → All supported by ISO/IEC 8859-1 plus full support for French[a] and Finnish and ligature forms for English; e.g. Danish (except for a rare exceptional letter), Irish, Italian, N…
MIME / IANA · 1
Windows-1252 → windows-1252

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code windows used use page microsoft character encoding websites standard iso iso-8859-1 1252 unicode pages html5 ansi 8859-1 web utf-8

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Windows-1252Alias(es)cp1252 (code page 1252)1.00infobox
Windows-1252Classificationextended ASCII, Windows-125x1.00infobox
Windows-1252Created byMicrosoft1.00infobox
Windows-1252ExtendsISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls)1.00infobox
Windows-1252LanguagesAll supported by ISO/IEC 8859-1 plus full support for French[a] and Finnish and ligature forms for English; e.g. Danish (except for a rare exceptional letter), Irish, Italian, N…1.00infobox
Windows-1252MIME / IANAwindows-12521.00infobox
Windows-1252StandardWHATWG Encoding Standard1.00infobox
Windows-1252Succeeded byUnicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)1.00infobox
Windows-1252Transforms / EncodesISO 8859-151.00infobox
ISO-8859-1instance ofthe intention was that most of these would be ANSI standards0.80text
Microsoft Word due to the smart quotes featureinstance ofwere commonly used in files produced in Windows applications0.80text
which can automatically convert straight apostrophesinstance ofwere commonly used in files produced in Windows applications0.80text

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