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 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.

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. The differences are shown in the table below:

Note: ISO-8859-2 characters in the range 80–9F are C1 control codes.

[edit] Code page layout

Only the lower half of the table (80–FF) is shown, the upper half (00–7F) being plain ASCII.

[edit] External links

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