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What is Windows-1252 encoding?
Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows for English and many European languages including Spanish, French, and German.
What is the difference between Windows-1252 and UTF-8?
Windows-1252 is a subset of UTF-8 in terms of ‘what characters are available’, but not in terms of their byte-by-byte representation. Windows-1252 has characters between bytes 127 and 255 that UTF-8 has a different encoding for. Any visible character in the ASCII range (127 and below) are encoded 1:1 in UTF-8.
What is the difference between ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8?
UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character. ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters. Both encode ASCII exactly the same way. One thing to note that ASCII extends from 0 to 127 only.
What is the default encoding on Windows?
The default character encoding on Windows is UTF-16.
How do I convert ANSI to UTF-8?
Try Settings -> Preferences -> New document -> Encoding -> choose UTF-8 without BOM, and check Apply to opened ANSI files . That way all the opened ANSI files will be treated as UTF-8 without BOM.
How do I know my system encoding?
Open up your file using regular old vanilla Notepad that comes with Windows. It will show you the encoding of the file when you click “Save As…”. Whatever the default-selected encoding is, that is what your current encoding is for the file.
What is Windows-1252 text?
It is known to Windows by the code page number 1252, and by the IANA -approved name “windows-1252”. It is very common to mislabel Windows-1252 text with the charset label ISO-8859-1.
What are windows 1252 characters and why do they matter?
The Windows 1252 characters in this range, including curly quotes and apostrophes and the ellipsis, turn up often in Web documents and have proper codings elsewhere in Unicode. (But note that HTML 5 sidesteps this issue, by not really supporting ISO-8859-1 at all.
What does CP1252 stand for?
Windows 1252 (CP1252, Windows-1252, Windows CP1252, Windows Latin Western, Windows Latin, Windows ANSI) is a character encoding used in Microsoft Windows systems, particularly English-language installations. It is one of the Windows encodings.
What is openwindows-1253?
Windows-1253 is a Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek.