<s>
Windows-1252	O
or	O
CP-1252	O
(	O
code	O
page	O
1252	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
single-byte	O
character	B-General_Concept
encoding	I-General_Concept
of	O
the	O
Latin	O
alphabet	O
(	O
or	O
superset	O
of	O
)	O
,	O
that	O
was	O
used	O
by	O
default	O
in	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
(	O
legacy	B-Device
components	O
of	O
)	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
for	O
English	O
and	O
many	O
(	O
European	O
)	O
languages	O
including	O
Spanish	O
,	O
Portuguese	O
,	O
French	O
,	O
and	O
German	O
(	O
missing	O
uppercase	O
ẞ	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Windows	O
(	O
and	O
most	O
other	O
operating	O
systems	O
)	O
now	O
uses	O
Unicode	O
character	B-General_Concept
sets	I-General_Concept
by	O
default	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
the	O
most-used	O
single-byte	O
character	B-General_Concept
encoding	I-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
world	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
1.4	O
%	O
of	O
all	O
web	O
sites	O
declare	O
ISO	O
8859-1	O
which	O
is	O
treated	O
as	O
Windows-1252	O
by	O
all	O
modern	O
browsers	O
(	O
as	O
demanded	O
by	O
the	O
HTML5	B-Application
standard	O
)	O
,	O
plus	O
0.3	O
%	O
of	O
all	O
websites	O
declared	O
use	O
of	O
Windows-1252	O
,	O
for	O
a	O
total	O
of	O
1.7	O
%	O
(	O
and	O
only	O
16	O
of	O
the	O
top	O
1000	O
websites	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pages	O
declared	O
as	O
ASCII	O
,	O
or	O
a	O
missing	O
or	O
invalid	O
charset	B-General_Concept
,	O
are	O
also	O
assumed	O
to	O
be	O
Windows-1252	O
by	O
browsers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Depending	O
on	O
the	O
country	O
or	O
language	O
,	O
use	O
can	O
be	O
much	O
higher	O
than	O
the	O
global	O
average	O
,	O
e.g.	O
,	O
for	O
Brazil	O
website	O
use	O
is	O
at	O
9.2	O
%	O
,	O
and	O
in	O
Germany	O
at	O
3.9	O
%	O
(	O
these	O
are	O
the	O
sums	O
of	O
ISO-8859-1	O
and	O
CP1252	O
declarations	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Windows-1252	O
is	O
often	O
assumed	O
to	O
be	O
the	O
encoding	O
of	O
text	O
in	O
operating	O
systems	O
,	O
in	O
particular	O
on	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
;	O
this	O
is	O
only	O
gradually	O
being	O
changed	O
to	O
UTF-8	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
character	B-General_Concept
encoding	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
superset	O
of	O
ISO	O
8859-1	O
in	O
terms	O
of	O
printable	O
characters	O
,	O
but	O
differs	O
from	O
the	O
IANA	O
's	O
ISO-8859-1	O
by	O
adding	O
additional	O
characters	O
in	O
the	O
80	O
to	O
9F	O
(	O
hex	O
)	O
range	O
(	O
the	O
ISO	O
standards	O
reserve	O
this	O
range	O
for	O
control	O
characters	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
result	O
was	O
that	O
all	O
the	O
quotes	O
and	O
apostrophes	B-Language
(	O
produced	O
by	O
"	O
smart	O
quotes	O
"	O
)	O
were	O
replaced	O
with	O
question	O
marks	O
or	O
boxes	O
when	O
viewed	O
on	O
non-Windows	O
operating	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
modern	O
web	O
browsers	O
and	O
e-mail	O
clients	O
treat	O
the	O
media	B-Application
type	I-Application
charset	B-General_Concept
ISO-8859-1	O
as	O
Windows-1252	O
to	O
accommodate	O
such	O
mislabeling	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
behavior	O
is	O
now	O
required	O
by	O
the	O
HTML5	B-Application
specification	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Browsers	O
appear	O
to	O
treat	O
the	O
charset	B-General_Concept
"	O
ASCII	O
"	O
and	O
missing	O
charsets	B-General_Concept
the	O
same	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Even	O
though	O
Windows-1252	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
and	O
by	O
far	O
most	O
popular	O
code	O
page	O
named	O
so	O
in	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
parlance	O
,	O
the	O
code	O
page	O
has	O
never	O
been	O
an	O
ANSI	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
LaTeX	B-Application
packages	O
,	O
CP-1252	O
is	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
"	O
ansinew	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
called	O
"	O
WE8MSWIN1252	O
"	O
by	O
Oracle	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
the	O
information	O
on	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
and	O
the	O
Unicode	O
Consortium	O
's	O
websites	O
,	O
positions	O
81	O
,	O
8D	O
,	O
8F	O
,	O
90	O
,	O
and	O
9D	O
are	O
unused	O
;	O
however	O
,	O
the	O
Windows	O
API	O
MultiByteToWideChar	O
maps	O
these	O
to	O
the	O
corresponding	O
C1	O
control	O
codes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
codepage	O
1252	O
used	O
in	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
1.0	O
did	O
not	O
have	O
positions	O
D7	O
and	O
F7	O
defined	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
second	O
version	O
,	O
used	O
in	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
2.0	O
,	O
positions	O
D7	O
,	O
F7	O
,	O
91	O
,	O
and	O
92	O
had	O
been	O
defined	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
third	O
version	O
,	O
used	O
since	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
3.1	O
,	O
had	O
all	O
the	O
present-day	O
positions	O
defined	O
,	O
except	O
euro	O
sign	O
and	O
Z	B-Language
with	O
caron	O
character	O
pair	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
final	O
version	O
listed	O
above	O
debuted	O
in	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
98	O
and	O
was	O
ported	O
to	O
older	O
versions	O
of	O
Windows	O
with	O
the	O
euro	O
symbol	O
update	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OS/2	B-Application
operating	O
system	O
supports	O
an	O
encoding	O
by	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
Code	B-General_Concept
page	I-General_Concept
1004	I-General_Concept
(	O
CCSID	O
1004	O
)	O
or	O
"	O
Windows	O
Extended	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
variant	O
of	O
Windows-1252	O
is	O
used	O
by	O
Palm	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
3.5	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Python	B-Language
gives	O
it	O
the	O
label	O
.	O
</s>
