Windows-1250

Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use Latin script, such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (Latin script), Romanian (before 1993 spelling reform) and Albanian. It may also be used with the German language; German-language texts encoded with Windows-1250 and Windows-1252 are identical.

In modern applications UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a preferred encoding. 0.2% of all web pages use Windows-1250 in February 2016.^[1][2]

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, since those don't occur in Windows-1252 and could have been put in the same positions as in ISO-8859-2 if ˇ had been put e.g. at 9F. The part that differs from ISO-8859-2 is compared with Windows-1252 in the table below:

position (hex)	1252	1250	position (hex)	1252	1250	position (hex)	1252	1250	position (hex)	1252	1250	position (hex)	1252	1250
83	‚ U+201A		98	˜ U+02DC		A2	¢ U+00A2	˘ U+02D8	B2	² U+00B2	˛ U+02DB	BD	½ U+00BD	˝ U+02DD
88	ˆ U+02C6		9C	œ U+0153	ś U+015B	A3	£ U+00A3	Ł U+0141	B3	³ U+00B3	ł U+0142	BE	¾ U+00BE	ľ U+013E
8C	Œ U+0152	Ś U+015A	9D		ť U+0165	A5	¥ U+00A5	Ą U+0104	B9	¹ U+00B9	ą U+0105	BF	¿ U+00BF	ż U+017C
8D		Ť U+0164	9F	Ÿ U+0178	ź U+017A	AA	ª U+00AA	Ş U+015E	BA	º U+00BA	ş U+015F
8F		Ź U+0179	A1	¡ U+00A1	ˇ U+02C7	AF	¯ U+00AF	Ż U+017B	BC	¼ U+00BC	Ľ U+013D

Note: The shaded positions at A2, A3, AA, AF, B2, B3, BA, BD and BF are the same as in ISO-8859-2. Positions which are identical in Windows-1252 and Windows-1250 are not shown.

Code page layout

The following table shows Windows-1250. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its decimal code.

Legend:

Alphabetic   Control character   Numeric digit   Punctuation

Extended punctuation   Graphic character   International   Undefined

Windows-1250

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	NUL 0000 0	SOH 0001 1	STX 0002 2	ETX 0003 3	EOT 0004 4	ENQ 0005 5	ACK 0006 6	BEL 0007 7	BS 0008 8	HT 0009 9	LF 000A 10	VT 000B 11	FF 000C 12	CR 000D 13	SO 000E 14	SI 000F 15
1_	DLE 0010 16	DC1 0011 17	DC2 0012 18	DC3 0013 19	DC4 0014 20	NAK 0015 21	SYN 0016 22	ETB 0017 23	CAN 0018 24	EM 0019 25	SUB 001A 26	ESC 001B 27	FS 001C 28	GS 001D 29	RS 001E 30	US 001F 31
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6_	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7_	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126	DEL 007F 127
8_	€ 20AC 128	129	‚ 201A 130	131	„ 201E 132	… 2026 133	† 2020 134	‡ 2021 135	136	‰ 2030 137	Š 0160 138	‹ 2039 139	Ś 015A 140	Ť 0164 141	Ž 017D 142	Ź 0179 143
9_	144	‘ 2018 145	’ 2019 146	“ 201C 147	” 201D 148	• 2022 149	– 2013 150	— 2014 151	152	™ 2122 153	š 0161 154	› 203A 155	ś 015B 156	ť 0165 157	ž 017E 158	ź 017A 159
A_	NBSP 00A0 160	ˇ 02C7 161	˘ 02D8 162	Ł 0141 163	¤ 00A4 164	Ą 0104 165	¦ 00A6 166	§ 00A7 167	¨ 00A8 168	© 00A9 169	Ş 015E 170	« 00AB 171	¬ 00AC 172	SHY 00AD 173	® 00AE 174	Ż 017B 175
B_	° 00B0 176	± 00B1 177	˛ 02DB 178	ł 0142 179	´ 00B4 180	µ 00B5 181	¶ 00B6 182	· 00B7 183	¸ 00B8 184	ą 0105 185	ş 015F 186	» 00BB 187	Ľ 013D 188	˝ 02DD 189	ľ 013E 190	ż 017C 191
C_	Ŕ 0154 192	Á 00C1 193	Â 00C2 194	Ă 0102 195	Ä 00C4 196	Ĺ 0139 197	Ć 0106 198	Ç 00C7 199	Č 010C 200	É 00C9 201	Ę 0118 202	Ë 00CB 203	Ě 011A 204	Í 00CD 205	Î 00CE 206	Ď 010E 207
D_	Đ 0110 208	Ń 0143 209	Ň 0147 210	Ó 00D3 211	Ô 00D4 212	Ő 0150 213	Ö 00D6 214	× 00D7 215	Ř 0158 216	Ů 016E 217	Ú 00DA 218	Ű 0170 219	Ü 00DC 220	Ý 00DD 221	Ţ 0162 222	ß 00DF 223
E_	ŕ 0155 224	á 00E1 225	â 00E2 226	ă 0103 227	ä 00E4 228	ĺ 013A 229	ć 0107 230	ç 00E7 231	č 010D 232	é 00E9 233	ę 0119 234	ë 00EB 235	ě 011B 236	í 00ED 237	î 00EE 238	ď 010F 239
F_	đ 0111 240	ń 0144 241	ň 0148 242	ó 00F3 243	ô 00F4 244	ő 0151 245	ö 00F6 246	÷ 00F7 247	ř 0159 248	ů 016F 249	ú 00FA 250	ű 0171 251	ü 00FC 252	ý 00FD 253	ţ 0163 254	˙ 02D9 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

References

1. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding
2. http://w3techs.com/faq

External links

• Windows 1250 reference chart
• IANA Charset Name Registration
• Unicode mapping table for Windows 1250
• Unicode mappings of windows 1250 with "best fit"