Information AboutWindows-1250 |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT WINDOWS-1250 | |
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In modern applications UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a preferred encoding Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place). Most of the rearrangements seem to have been done to keep characters shared with Windows-1252 in the same place as in Windows-1252 but three of the characters moved (Ą,Ľ,ź) cannot be explained this way. The differences are shown in the table below: Note: ISO-8859-2 characters in the range 80–9F are C1 Control Code s. CODE PAGE LAYOUT Only the upper half of the table (80–FF) is shown, the lower half (00–7F) being plain ASCII . EXTERNAL LINKS
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