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.
22
Encodings
9
Windows Code Pages
11
ISO-8859 Standards
20
Comparisons
Windows Code Pages
9Microsoft Windows code pages extend ASCII with language-specific characters. CP1252 (Western Europe) is the most widely used.
Central/Eastern Europe - 256 characters (122 unique)
Cyrillic - 256 characters (126 unique)
Western Europe - 256 characters (123 unique)
Greek - 256 characters (110 unique)
Turkish - 256 characters (120 unique)
Hebrew - 256 characters (105 unique)
Arabic - 256 characters (127 unique)
Baltic - 256 characters (115 unique)
Vietnamese - 256 characters (118 unique)
ISO-8859 Standards
11The ISO-8859 family of standards provides single-byte character encodings for different writing systems. ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) covers Western European languages.
Western Europe - 256 characters (95 unique)
Central Europe - 256 characters (95 unique)
South European - 256 characters (88 unique)
North European - 256 characters (95 unique)
Cyrillic - 256 characters (95 unique)
Arabic - 256 characters (50 unique)
Greek - 256 characters (92 unique)
Hebrew - 256 characters (59 unique)
Turkish - 256 characters (95 unique)
Nordic - 256 characters (95 unique)
Thai - 256 characters (87 unique)
Other Encodings
Compare Encodings
View all comparisons →See exactly which characters differ between encoding pairs in the extended range (128-255).
56 characters differ
97 characters differ
84 characters differ
8 characters differ
74 characters differ
64 characters differ
68 characters differ
18 characters differ
128 characters differ