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What is western european windows text encoding

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Most computers internally used eight-bit bytes but communication (seen as inherently unreliable) used seven data bits plus one parity bit.

#What is western european windows text encoding iso#

There was the ISO 646 group of encodings which replaced some of the symbols in ASCII with local characters, but space was very limited, and some of the symbols replaced were quite common in things like programming languages. However, since there was no other choice on most US-supplied computer platforms, use of ASCII was unavoidable except where there was a strong national computing industry. It is missing some letters and letter-diacritic combinations used in other Latin-alphabet languages.

#What is western european windows text encoding code#

American Standard Code for Information Interchange ('ASCII') encoding has characters sufficient to properly represent only a few languages such as English, Latin, Malay and Swahili. ( April 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

#What is western european windows text encoding mac os#

The Macintosh Latin encoding, a modification of Mac OS Roman to support ISO/IEC 8859-1, was created by the creators of Kermit (protocol) to solve this problem. Conversely, in Web material prepared on an older Macintosh, many characters were displayed incorrectly when read by other operating systems. Older Macintosh web browsers were known to munge the few characters that were in ISO/IEC 8859-1 but not their native Macintosh character set when editing text from Web sites.

The Mac OS Roman character set (often referred to as MacRoman and known by the IANA as simply MACINTOSH) has most, but not all, of the same characters as ISO/IEC 8859-1 but in a very different arrangement and it also adds many technical and mathematical characters (though it lacks the important ×) and more diacritics.

IBM code pages 037, 500, and 1047 are EBCDIC encodings that include all of the ISO-8859-1 characters.

IBM CP859 contains all the printable characters that ISO/IEC 8859-15 has, so unlike CP850 it supports the euro sign, Estonian, Finnish and French.

IBM CP858 differs from CP850 only by one character - a dotless i ( ı), rarely used outside Turkey and with no uppercase equivalent provided, was replaced by euro currency sign ( €).

IBM CP850 has all the printable characters that ISO-8859-1 has (albeit arranged differently) and still manages to have enough graphics characters to build a usable text-mode user interface.

IBM CP437, being intended for English only, has very little in the way of accented letters (particularly uppercase) but has far more graphics characters than the other IBM code pages listed here and also some mathematical and Greek characters that are useful as technical symbols.

It is common that web page tools for Windows use Windows-1252 but label the web page as using ISO-8859-1, this has been addressed in HTML5, which mandates that pages labeled as ISO-8859-1 must be interpreted as Windows-1252.

Windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1 that includes the printable characters from ISO/IEC 8859-15 and popular punctuation such as curved quotation marks (also known as smart quotes, such as in Microsoft Word settings and similar programs).

ISO/IEC 8859-15 modifies ISO-8859-1 to fully support Estonian, Finnish and French and add the euro sign.

ISO/IEC 8859-1 or Latin-1 is the most used and also defines the first 256 codes in Unicode.The arrival of Unicode, with a unique code point for every glyph, resolved these issues. The ISO-8859 series of 8-bit character sets encodes all Latin character sets used in Europe, albeit that the same code points have multiple uses that caused some difficulty (including mojibake, or garbled characters, and communication issues).