Windows-1250


Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use the Latin script. It is primarily used by Czech. It is also used for Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian and Albanian. It may also be used with the German language, though it is missing uppercase ẞ. German-language texts encoded with Windows-1250 and Windows-1252 are identical.
This has been replaced by UTF-8 far more than Windows-1252 has., less than 0.05% of all web pages use Windows-1250.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 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.
IBM uses code page 1250 for Windows-1250.

Character set

The following table shows Windows-1250. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent.