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Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding [2] that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.
The term "ANSI" is a misnomer because these Windows code pages do not comply with any ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard; code page 1252 was based on an early ANSI draft that became the international standard ISO 8859-1, [3] which adds a further 32 control codes and space for 96 printable characters. Among other differences ...
The terminology, however, is different: What others call a character set, HP calls a symbol set, and what IBM or Microsoft call a code page, HP calls a symbol set code. HP developed a series of symbol sets, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] each with an associated symbol set code, to encode both its own character sets and other vendors’ character sets.
Microsoft intended to use ISO 8859 standards in Windows, [7] but soon replaced C1 control codes with additional characters, making the proprietary Windows-1252 character set. The added characters included "curly" quotation marks, the em dash, the euro sign, and the French and Finnish letters from ISO-8859-15. This became the most-used extended ...
The phrase ANSI character set has no well-defined meaning and has been used to refer to the following, among other things: . Windows code pages, a collection of 8-bit character sets compatible with ASCII but incompatible with each other, especially those code pages that are partly compatible with ISO-8859, most commonly Windows Latin 1
English: Windows-1252 character set, also known as "ANSI" (2 8 = 256 characters) shown in a 16×16 table. Color guide: Blue dots: indicate unused or control character (38 chars) Black characters: indicate basic printable characters (94 chars + space) Red characters: indicate code points that are C1 control codes in ISO-8859-1 (27 chars)
The popular Windows-1252 character set adds all the missing characters provided by ISO/IEC 8859-15, plus a number of typographic symbols, by replacing the rarely used C1 controls in the range 128 to 159 (hex 80 to 9F). It is very common for Windows-1252 text to be mislabelled as ISO-8859-1.
The repertoire, defined by Microsoft, encompasses all the characters found in Windows code pages 1252 (Windows Western), 1250 (Windows Central European), 1251 (Windows Cyrillic), 1253 (Windows Greek), 1254 (Windows Turkish), and 1257 (Windows Baltic), as well as characters from DOS code page 437.