Windows Western European

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Windows Western European is a character encoding (code page 1252) widely used on Microsoft Windows systems to represent Western European languages using the Latin alphabet.

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Label Occurrences
Windows Western European canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf character encoding ⓘ
code page ⓘ
alsoKnownAs CP1252 ⓘ
linked to: Windows-1252

Windows-1252 ⓘ
code page 1252 ⓘ
basedOn ISO 8859-1 ⓘ
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-1
category Windows character encodings ⓘ
characterSetType extended ASCII ⓘ
codePageNumber 1252 ⓘ
commonlyMisidentifiedAs ISO-8859-1 ⓘ
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-1
containsControlCharacters true ⓘ
containsCurrencySymbols true ⓘ
containsDiacritics true ⓘ
containsEuroSign true ⓘ
containsLigatures true ⓘ
containsPunctuationCharacters true ⓘ
containsQuotationMarks true ⓘ
differsFrom ISO 8859-1 in range 0x80–0x9F ⓘ
encodingType single-byte encoding ⓘ
extends ISO 8859-1 ⓘ
linked to: ISO/IEC 8859-1
hasCodeUnitSize 8 bits ⓘ
hasEuroSignCodePoint 0x80 ⓘ
ianaStatus registered ⓘ
introducedBy Microsoft ⓘ
mimeName windows-1252 ⓘ
supersededBy UTF-8 ⓘ
supports most Western European languages using Latin script ⓘ
supportsLanguage Danish ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ
English ⓘ
Finnish ⓘ
French ⓘ
German ⓘ
Italian ⓘ
Norwegian ⓘ
linked to: Norwegian language

Portuguese ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
Swedish ⓘ
targetRegion Western Europe ⓘ
targetScript Latin alphabet ⓘ
usedFor documents ⓘ
graphical user interface text ⓘ
legacy data ⓘ
usedIn HTML documents on Windows ⓘ
email messages on Windows ⓘ
usedOnPlatform Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to: Windows

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Windows-1252 → alsoKnownAs → Windows Western European ⓘ