Oct 19, 2022 · Even though Windows-1252 was the first and by far most popular code page named so in Microsoft Windows parlance, the code page has never been an ANSI standard. Microsoft explains, …

Mar 2, 2017 · Is there a way to force Notepad++ Encoding to Windows-1252 for files that it doesn't auto-detect the encoding? It seems it defaults to UTF-8 and I want it to default to Windows-1252 instead.

Mar 9, 2023 · Now, that results in applications like WinMerge guessing codepage 1252, which looks fine, from a Western European point of view. The same is true for WordPad too. However, any terminal …

Dec 28, 2023 · Other characters match upon <mystery_file iconv -c -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8. Maybe the original encoding was MAC (note the final UTF-8 in my commands is only because Linux expects …

Sep 4, 2022 · In Windows-1252 hex a4 is "¤". Going from Windows-1252 to ISO-8859-15 we would get a question mark or a " " because in ISO-8859-15 hex 80 is undefined. 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC do …

Apr 1, 2019 · After restarting VS Code and changing the file encoding from UTF-8 to Windows-1252, I get what is shown in the image below. My Auto Guess Encoding is unchecked and the default …

Dec 3, 2025 · Is there any guarantee/contract that codepage 1252 is available on all Windows systems regardless of locale/language? Testing with various VM installations, Registry entries at …

Sep 24, 2022 · In the case of Western European (Latin) languages, " ANSI " encoding means the code page Windows-1252. 1 1a. Make VS Code use the correct encoding In VS Code, instead of looking …

Aug 29, 2016 · The most common is CP 1252 (also known as Windows-1252). So, when your editor says ANSI, it is meaning "whatever the API functions use as the default ANSI encoding", which is the …

Mar 22, 2024 · A more accurate or useful name would be Code Page 1252. Saying you wrote a file in ANSI is a bit like saying you painted your kitchen in the colour Pantone or RAL. Microsoft …