| MIME / IANA | windows-1257 |
|---|---|
| Alias(es) | cp1257 (Code page 1257) |
| Languages | Estonian,Latvian,Lithuanian,Latgalian, (also supportsPolish,Slovene,Swedish,Finnish,Norwegian,Danish,German,English,Māori,Rotokas,Hawaiian,Niuean,Samoan,Tokelauan,Tongan,Tuvaluan,Hepburn romanization/Japanese transliteration,Persian transliteration) |
| Created by | Microsoft |
| Standard | LST 1590-3,WHATWG Encoding Standard |
| Classification | extended ASCII,Windows-125x |
| Other related encodings | IBM-922,ISO 8859-13,LST 1590-4 |
Windows-1257 (Windows Baltic) is an8-bit,single-byteextended ASCIIcode page used to support theEstonian (which also used inWindows-1252),Latvian andLithuanian languages underMicrosoft Windows. In Lithuania, it is standardised asLST 1590-3, alongside a modified variant namedLST 1590-4.[1][2]
The labelWindows-1257 was registered with theIANA in 1996, citing a publication of the specification in 1995 and inclusion with pan-European versions ofWindows 95.[3] The laterISO 8859-13 encoding (first published in 1998) is similar, but differs in reserving the range0x80–9F forcontrol characters, and accordingly locating certainquotation marks at codepoints 0xA1, 0xA5, 0xB4 and 0xFF instead (the latter two are used for spacingdiacritics in Windows-1257). Windows-1257 is not compatible with the olderISO 8859-4 andISO 8859-10 encodings. For the letters of theEstonian alphabet, Windows-1257 is compatible withIBM-922.
IBM uses code page 1257 (CCSID 1257,euro sign extended CCSID 5353, and the further extended CCSID 9449) for Windows-1257.[4][5][6][7]
As with many other code pages, the languages supported in this code page can be supported in other code pages. The Estonian language can be written withWindows-1252. It is possible, but unusual, to writePolish,Slovene,Swedish,Finnish,Norwegian,Danish andGerman using this code page. The German specific characters will be identical to those encoded in Windows-1252.
Unicode is preferred to Windows-1257 in modern applications.
The following table shows Windows-1257. Each character is shown with itsUnicode equivalent in the tooltip.
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