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Windows-1252

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Windows-1252

Summary

Windows-1252 is a Windows code page[1]. Windows-1252 ranks in the top 10% of windows_code_page entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (393 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Windows-1252's image is recorded as Windows-1252-infobox.svg[3].
  • Windows-1252's image is recorded as Windows-1252.svg[4].
  • Windows-1252's instance of is recorded as Windows code page[5].
  • Windows-1252's has use is recorded as Latin script[6].
  • Windows-1252's has use is recorded as Western Europe[7].
  • Windows-1252's has use is recorded as Americas[8].
  • Windows-1252's Commons category is recorded as Windows-1252[9].
  • Windows-1252's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hqfz[10].
  • Windows-1252's described at URL is recorded as https://iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/windows-1252[11].
  • Windows-1252's described at URL is recorded as https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195054.aspx[12].
  • Windows-1252's described at URL is recorded as https://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1252.htm[13].
  • Windows-1252's described at URL is recorded as https://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT[14].
  • Windows-1252's described at URL is recorded as https://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit1252.txt[15].
  • Windows-1252's described at URL is recorded as https://ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=tables-code-page-1252-generic-system-1252[16].
  • Windows-1252's partially coincident with is recorded as ISO/IEC 8859-1[17].
  • Windows-1252's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/cp1252[18].
  • Windows-1252's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as Windows_1252[19].
  • Windows-1252's man page is recorded as cp1252.7[20].

Why It Matters

Windows-1252 ranks in the top 10% of windows_code_page entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (393 views/month).[2] Windows-1252 has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Windows-1252 is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . iana.org. iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Windows-1252. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/windows-1252
MLA “Windows-1252.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/windows-1252.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_windows-1252_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Windows-1252}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/windows-1252}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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