Windows-1254 is a

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used under

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(and for the web), to write Turkish that it was designed for (which is its dominant user, even though it can be used for some other languages too). Characters with codepoints A0 through FF are compatible with ISO 8859-9, but the CR range, which is reserved for C1 control codes in ISO 8859, is instead used for additional characters (analogous to the relationship between

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and

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). The

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Encoding Standard, which specifies the character encodings which are permitted in

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and which compliant browsers must support, includes Windows-1254, which is used for both the Windows-1254 and ISO-8859-9 labels.

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is preferred for modern applications; authors of new pages and the designers of new protocols are instructed to use

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instead. , less than 0.05% of all web pages use Windows-1254, and less than 0.06% use ISO-8859-9, which the WHATWG also requires web browsers to handle as Windows-1254. Since 1.9% of all websites located in Turkey use ISO-8859-9, plus the 1.3% that actually declare Windows-1254 used, in effect, 3.2% of websites there use Windows-1254. IBM uses code page 1254 (

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1254 and

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extended CCSID 5350) for Windows-1254.

Character set

The following table shows Windows-1254. Each character is shown with its

equivalent.

References

External links

Windows 1254 reference chart

IANA Charset Name Registration of windows-1254
{{character encoding Windows code pages

Character set

See also

References

External links