Windows-1250 is acode page used underMicrosoft Windows to represent texts inCentral European andEastern European languages that use theLatin script. It is primarily used byCzech.^[1] It is also used forPolish (as canWindows-1257),Slovak,Hungarian,Slovene (as canWindows-1257),Serbo-Croatian (Latin script),Romanian (before a1993 spelling reform) andAlbanian (as canWindows-1252). It may also be used with theGerman language, though it is missing uppercaseẞ.^[a] German-language texts encoded with Windows-1250 andWindows-1252 are identical.

This has been replaced byUTF-8 far more than Windows-1252 has. As of March 2025^[update], less than 0.05% of all web pages use Windows-1250.^[2][3][4]

Windows-1250 is similar toISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However, a few of them are rearranged (unlikeWindows-1252, which keeps all printable characters fromISO-8859-1 in the same place). Most of the rearrangements seem to have been done to keep characters shared with Windows-1252 in the same place but three of the characters moved (Ą, Ľ, ź) cannot be explained this way, since those do not occur in Windows-1252 and could have been put in the same positions as in ISO-8859-2 if ˇ had been put e.g. at 9F.

IBM uses code page 1250 (CCSID 1250 andeuro sign extended CCSID 5346) for Windows-1250.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

The following table shows Windows-1250. Each character is shown with itsUnicode equivalent.

• Latin script in Unicode
• Unicode
• Universal Character Set
  • European Unicode subset (DIN 91379)
• UTF-8

• Windows 1250 reference chart
• IANA Charset Name Registration
• Unicode mappings of windows 1250 with "best fit"

• Windows code pages

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles containing potentially dated statements from March 2025
• All articles containing potentially dated statements