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Windows-1252

Windows-1252 proper noun: a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.

Proper noun

Windows-1252

  1. A single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.

Forms of Windows-1252

alternative formCP-1252

Questions about Windows-1252

What does Windows-1252 mean?
Windows-1252 means a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.
What part of speech is Windows-1252?
Windows-1252 is a proper noun.

Words near Windows-1252 in the dictionary

  1. windows out
  2. windows over
  3. Windows tax
  4. Windows taxes
  5. windows up
  6. Windows-1252
  7. windowscreen
  8. windowscreens
  9. windowsful
  10. windowshop
  11. windowshopping

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