| Windows-1250 | |
| Mime: | windows-1250 |
| Alias: | cp1250 (Code page 1250) |
| By: | Microsoft |
| Standard: | WHATWG Encoding Standard |
| Lang: | Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Montenegrin, Romanian (before 1993 spelling reform), Turkmen, Rotokas, Albanian, English, German, Irish, Luxembourgish, Dutch |
| Classification: | extended ASCII, Windows-125x |
| Otherrelated: | ISO-8859-2 |
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.[1] It is also used for Polish (as can Windows-1257), Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene (as can Windows-1257), Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Romanian (before a 1993 spelling reform) and Albanian (as can Windows-1252). It may also be used with the German language, though it's 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This has been replaced by UTF-8 far more than Windows-1252 has. As of October 2022, less than 0.04% of all web pages use Windows-1250.[2] [3] [4]
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 (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place). 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 (Ą, Ľ, ź) 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 (CCSID 1250 and euro sign extended CCSID 5346) for Windows-1250.[5] [6] [7]
The following table shows Windows-1250. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent.