What is Windows-1252 encoding?

What is Windows-1252 encoding?

Windows-1252 is a single-byte encoding, which means that each character is encoded as a single byte, the same as with ASCII. However, since Windows-1252 uses the full 8 bits of each byte for its code points (as opposed to ASCII’s 7-bit codes), it contains 256 code points compared to ASCII’s 128.

What is code page 1252 SQL Server?

Code page 1252 (ISO character set) is the default character set. It is also known as the ISO 8859-1, Latin 1, or ANSI character set. It is compatible with the ANSI characters used by the Microsoft® Windows NT® and Microsoft Windows® operating systems.

What is the Latin 1 ISO-8859-1 character set?

Latin-1, also called ISO-8859-1, is an 8-bit character set endorsed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and represents the alphabets of Western European languages.

Is Windows-1252 the same as ANSI 8859?

On “the ANSI conspiracy”, Microsoft actually admits the miss-labeling of Windows-1252in a glossary of terms: The so-called Windows character set (WinLatin1, or Windows code page 1252, to be exact) uses some of those positions for printable characters. Thus, the Windows character set is NOT identical with ISO 8859-1.

What is the difference between asciiascii and ISO-8859-1?

ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding. CP-1252 is an 8-bit character encoding based on ASCII (identical up to code point 127). ISO-8859-1 is an 8-bit character encoding based on CP-1252. ISO-8859-1 differs from CP-1252 in sticks 8 and 9 only, Stick8 = 0x80-0x8f.

What is Windows-1252 error 128-159?

Windows-1252 has several characters, punctuation, arithmetic and business symbols assigned to these code points. Mislabeling text encoded in Windows-1252 as ISO-8859-1 and then converting from ISO-8859-1 to Unicode or other encodings causes the characters in the range 128-159 to be lost.

Why do I get utf-8/windows-1252 encoding problems in VS Code?

This problem occurs because VS Code encodes the character – in UTF-8 as the bytes 0xE2 0x80 0x93. When these bytes are decoded as Windows-1252, they are interpreted as the characters —. Some strange character sequences that you might see include: This handy reference lists the common patterns that indicate a UTF-8/Windows-1252 encoding problem.

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