Windows-1252
This article is about the character encoding commonly mislabeled as "ANSI". For the actual ANSI character encoding, see ASCII. Windows-1252 MIME / IANA .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} windows-1252 Language(s) English, various others Created by Microsoft Standard WHATWG Encoding Standard Classification extended ASCII, Windows-125x Extends ISO 8859-1 (excluding C1 controls) Transforms / Encodes ISO 8859-15 v t e Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (code page – 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows in English and some other Western languages (other languages use different default encodings). It is probably the most-used 8-bit character encoding in the world. As of January 2019 [update] , 0.7% of all web sites declared use of Windows-1252, [1] [2] but at the same time 3.5% used ISO 8859-1, [1] which by HTML5 standar