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, 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; As of July 2020, under 0.1% of all web pages use Windows-1250.
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. 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 cannot be explained this way, since those do not occur in Windows-1252 and could have been put in the same positions as in ISO-8859-2 if ˇ had been put e.g. at 9F. The part that differs from ISO-8859-2 is compared with Windows-1252 in the table below:
position
| 1252 | 1250 | position
| 1252 | 1250 | position
| 1252 | 1250 | position
| 1252 | 1250 | position
| 1252 | 1250 |
| 83 | ƒ
U+0192 | | 98 | ˜
U+02DC | | A2 | ¢
U+00A2 | ˘
U+02D8 | B2 | ²
U+00B2 | ˛
U+02DB | BD | ½
U+00BD | ˝
U+02DD |
| 88 | ˆ
U+02C6 | | 9C | œ
U+0153 | ś
U+015B | A3 | £
U+00A3 | Ł
U+0141 | B3 | ³
U+00B3 | ł
U+0142 | BE | ¾
U+00BE | ľ
U+013E |
| 8C | Œ
U+0152 | Ś
U+015A | 9D | | ť
U+0165 | A5 | ¥
U+00A5 | Ą
U+0104 | B9 | ¹
U+00B9 | ą
U+0105 | BF | ¿
U+00BF | ż
U+017C |
| 8D | | Ť
U+0164 | 9F | Ÿ
U+0178 | ź
U+017A | AA | ª
U+00AA | Ş
U+015E | BA | º
U+00BA | ş
U+015F | - | - | - |
| 8F | | Ź
U+0179 | A1 | ¡
U+00A1 | ˇ
U+02C7 | AF | ¯
U+00AF | Ż
U+017B | BC | ¼
U+00BC | Ľ
U+013D | - | - | - |
IBM uses code page 1250 for Windows-1250.Character set
The following table shows Windows-1250. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent.
