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Code Page 1252 Includes New Characters

Article ID: 197368

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY

This article describes the changes to code page 1252 used in Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

The new code page 1252 is a modified version of the original code page 1252 used in Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.

In the original code page 1252, three code points are marked as "not used." In the new code page 1252, these points are assigned to the following Unicode characters:

ANSI	Unicode	Description
0x80	U+20ac	Euro sign
0x8e	U+017d	Latin uppercase letter Z with caron
0x9e	U+017e	Latin lowercase letter Z with caron

Code page 1252 is used for all Western European languages.

For additional information about the caron and other diacritical marks, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

98999 Diacritical Marks Described and Explained

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