Kiwix on windows windows#
The second version, used in Microsoft Windows 2.0, positions D7, F7, 91, and 92 had been defined.All the characters in the ranges 80–9F were undefined too. The first version of the codepage 1252 used in Microsoft Windows 1.0 did not have positions D7 and F7 defined.The "best fit" mapping documents this behavior, too. Windows-1252 Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined Differences from ISO-8859-1Īccording to the information on Microsoft's and the Unicode Consortium's websites, positions 81, 8D, 8F, 90, and 9D are unused however, the Windows API MultiByteToWideChar maps these to the corresponding C1 control codes. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent based on the mapping of Windows-1252 with "best fit". In LaTeX packages, CP-1252 is referred to as "ansinew".
Kiwix on windows code#
Microsoft explains, "The term ANSI as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community." Even though Windows-1252 was the first and by far most popular code page named so in Microsoft Windows parlance, the code page has never been an ANSI standard. Historically, the phrase "ANSI Code Page" was used in Windows to refer to non-DOS encodings the intention was that most of these would be ANSI standards such as ISO-8859-1. This is now standard behavior in the HTML5 specification, which requires that documents advertised as ISO-8859-1 actually be parsed with the Windows-1252 encoding. Most modern web browsers and e-mail clients treat the media type charset ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252 to accommodate such mislabeling. A common result was that all the quotes and apostrophes (produced by "smart quotes" in word-processing software) were replaced with question marks or boxes on non-Windows operating systems, making text difficult to read. It is very common to mislabel Windows-1252 text with the charset label ISO-8859-1. It is known to Windows by the code page number 1252, and by the IANA-approved name "windows-1252".
Kiwix on windows iso#
Notable additional characters include curly quotation marks and all the printable characters that are in ISO 8859-15 (at different places than ISO 8859-15). This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 by using displayable characters rather than control characters in the 80 to 9F ( hex) range. As of December 2019, 0.5% of all web sites declared use of Windows-1252, but at the same time 2.7% used ISO 8859-1 (0.8% of top-1000 websites), which by HTML5 standards should be considered the same encoding, so that 3.2% of web sites effectively used Windows-1252. It is probably the most-used 8-bit character encoding in the world. For the actual "ANSI extended Latin" encoding, see ANSEL. For the actual ANSI character encoding, see ASCII. This article is about the character encoding commonly mislabeled as "ANSI".