Kostis Netzwerkberatung
Copyright (c) 1993-2000 by Kostis Netzwerkberatung
Talstr. 25, D-63322 Rödermark, Tel. +49 6074 881056, FAX 881058
kosta@kostis.net (Kosta Kostis), http://www.kostis.net/

This information may be used free of charge at your own risk.

trans V1.30 2001-02-22


Microsoft Windows Codepage Character Encoding Information

Not all Microsoft Windows Codepages are listed here.

Code points 00-7F are identical to code points 00-7F in ISO/IEC 646:1991 (IRV).

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1250 (EE)

EE stands for Eastern Europe.

file   cp1250
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999
undefined code points   80-81, 83, 88, 90, 98

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1251 (Cyrl)

Cyrl stands for Cyrillic.

file   cp1251
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999
undefined code points   88, 98

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1252 (ANSI)

ANSI stands for ANSI xxxxxxx. (which one is it?)

file   cp1252
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998
undefined code points   80-81, 8D-90, 9D-9E

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1253 (Greek)

file   cp1253
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO 8859-7:1987
undefined code points   80-81, 88, 8A, 8C-90, 98, 9A, 9C-9F, AA, D2, FF

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1254 (Turk)

Turk stands for Turkish.

file   cp1254
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999
undefined code points   80-81, 8D-90, 9D-9E

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1255 (Hebr)

Hebr stands for Hebrew.

file   cp1255
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999
undefined code points   80-81, 8A, 8C-90, 98, 9A, 9C-9F, BF-DE, FB-FC, FF
no description, yet   FD-FE

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1256 (Arab)

Arab stands for Arabic.

file   cp1256
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999
undefined code points   81, 83, 88, 8A, 8C-90, AF, B9, F8, FA, FD-FE
no description, yet   C3, E3

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1257 (Baltic)

file   cp1257
ISO/IEC 8859 equivalent   ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999
undefined code points   81, 83, 88, 8A, 8C, 90, 98, 9A, 9C, A1, A5

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1258 (Vietnamese)

file   cp1258
undefined code points   81, 8A, 8D-90, 9A, 9D, 9E

Microsoft Windows Symbol Font Encoding

file   symbol

Microsoft uses basically the "Adobe Symbol Encoding Vector" here.