June 2006
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MIME Common name Compare to Differences
windows-1253 Windows Greek ISO 8859-7 Differ in some positions
windows-1254 Windows Turkish ISO 8859-9
windows-1255 Windows Hebrew ISO 8859-8 Some differences
windows-1256 Windows Arabic ISO 8859-6 Major differences
windows-1257 Windows Baltic ISO 8859-13 A few differences
windows-1258 Windows Vietnamese (ISO 8859-1) Separate design
windows-874 Windows Thai ISO 8859-11
The windows-1258 encoding has no direct ISO 8859 counterpart, but its overall design
is the same as in ISO 8859-1, with the added characters as in windows-1252 and with
some modifications made to meet some needs of the Vietnamese language.
Names like cp1250 or cp-1250 (instead of windows-1250) are often used, but they are
not official (registered).
For detailed information, consult Microsoft’s documentation “Code pages supported
by Windows,” http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/wincp.mspx.
Other 8-bit Codes
There is a large number of 8-bit encodings, including HP Roman-8, KOI8-R (for Rus-
sian), and many others. A few of them are discussed below.
In general, full conversions between 8-bit character codes are not possible. For example,
the Macintosh character repertoire contains the Greek letter pi (π), which does not
exist in ISO Latin 1 at all. Naturally, a text can be converted (by a simple program that
uses a conversion table) from Macintosh character code to ISO 8859-1 if the text ...
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