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ASCII World

Character Encodings

All ASCII-based character encodings share the same first 128 characters (0-127). They differ in the extended range (128-255), where each encoding maps different characters to support specific languages and regions.

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Encodings

9

Windows Code Pages

11

ISO-8859 Standards

20

Comparisons

Windows Code Pages

9

Microsoft Windows code pages extend ASCII with language-specific characters. CP1252 (Western Europe) is the most widely used.

ISO-8859 Standards

11

The ISO-8859 family of standards provides single-byte character encodings for different writing systems. ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) covers Western European languages.

Other Encodings

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See exactly which characters differ between encoding pairs in the extended range (128-255).

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