What is the difference between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8?

UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character. ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters. Both encode ASCII exactly the same way.

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 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.

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 are the Unicode code points associated with Windows-1252 characters?

The Comparison Table below shows the Unicode code points associated with the Windows-1252 characters in the range 128-159. These 2 encodings are identical except for 8 code points, which causes confusion between the two of them as well as with Windows-1252. For additional details on ISO-8859-15, see Comparing ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15 .

What does Windows-1252 stand for?

Windows-1252. Windows-1252 or CP-1252 ( code page – 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows in English and some other Western languages (other languages use different default encodings). It is probably the most-used 8-bit character encoding in…