Windows-1257

Windows-1257 (Windows Baltic) is a single byte code page used to support the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages under Microsoft Windows. This code page is similar in layout to ISO 8859-13, but they differ in codepoints A1, A5, B4, FF, and of course in the range 80–9F, which is typically allocated with graphical characters in most single byte Windows code pages. Windows-1257 is not compatible with the older ISO 8859-4 and ISO 8859-10 encodings.

As with many other code pages, the languages supported in this code page can be supported in other code pages. The Estonian language can be written with Windows-1252. It is possible, but unusual, to write Polish and German using this code page. The German specific characters will be identical to those encoded in Windows-1252.

Unicode is preferred to Windows-1257 in modern applications.

Code page layout

The following table shows Windows-1257. 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-1257

	_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		‚ 201A 130		„ 201E 132	… 2026 133	† 2020 134	‡ 2021 135		‰ 2030 137		‹ 2039 139		¨ 00A8 141	ˇ 02C7 142	¸ 00B8 143
9_		‘ 2018 145	’ 2019 146	“ 201C 147	” 201D 148	• 2022 149	– 2013 150	— 2014 151		™ 2122 153		› 203A 155		¯ 00AF 157	˛ 02DB 158
A_	NBSP 00A0 160		¢ 00A2 162	£ 00A3 163	¤ 00A4 164		¦ 00A6 166	§ 00A7 167	Ø 00D8 168	© 00A9 169	Ŗ 0156 170	« 00AB 171	¬ 00AC 172	SHY 00AD 173	® 00AE 174	Æ 00C6 175
B_	° 00B0 176	± 00B1 177	² 00B2 178	³ 00B3 179	´ 00B4 180	µ 00B5 181	¶ 00B6 182	· 00B7 183	ø 00F8 184	¹ 00B9 185	ŗ 0157 186	» 00BB 187	¼ 00BC 188	½ 00BD 189	¾ 00BE 190	æ 00E6 191
C_	Ą 0104 192	Į 012E 193	Ā 0100 194	Ć 0106 195	Ä 00C4 196	Å 00C5 197	Ę 0118 198	Ē 0112 199	Č 010C 200	É 00C9 201	Ź 0179 202	Ė 0116 203	Ģ 0122 204	Ķ 0136 205	Ī 012A 206	Ļ 013B 207
D_	Š 0160 208	Ń 0143 209	Ņ 0145 210	Ó 00D3 211	Ō 014C 212	Õ 00D5 213	Ö 00D6 214	× 00D7 215	Ų 0172 216	Ł 0141 217	Ś 015A 218	Ū 016A 219	Ü 00DC 220	Ż 017B 221	Ž 017D 222	ß 00DF 223
E_	ą 0105 224	į 012F 225	ā 0101 226	ć 0107 227	ä 00E4 228	å 00E5 229	ę 0119 230	ē 0113 231	č 010D 232	é 00E9 233	ź 017A 234	ė 0117 235	ģ 0123 236	ķ 0137 237	ī 012B 238	ļ 013C 239
F_	š 0161 240	ń 0144 241	ņ 0146 242	ó 00F3 243	ō 014D 244	õ 00F5 245	ö 00F6 246	÷ 00F7 247	ų 0173 248	ł 0142 249	ś 015B 250	ū 016B 251	ü 00FC 252	ż 017C 253	ž 017E 254	˙ 02D9 255
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

External links

• Windows 1257 reference chart
• IANA Charset Name Registration of windows-1257
• Unicode mapping table for Windows 1257
• Unicode mappings of windows 1257 with "best fit"