Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 or abbreviated as cp1253, is a

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used to write modern

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. It is not capable of supporting the older

polytonic Greek Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography ( el, πολυτονικό σύστημα γραφής, translit=polytonikó sýstīma grafī́s), which includes fi ...

. It is not fully compatible with

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because a few characters, including the letter Ά, are located at different byte values: * µ and ¶ are added at their locations from

Windows-1252 Windows-1252 or CP-1252 ( code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows for English and many European languages including Spanish, French, and German. ...

and

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( 0xB5 and 0xB6). This collides with the locations of ΅ and Ά, respectively, in ISO 8859-7. * ‘ and ’ are moved from their ISO 8859-7 locations (0xA1 and 0xA2) to their Windows-1252 locations (0x91 and 0x92). The displaced ΅ and Ά are moved to the vacated space at 0xA1 and 0xA2 respectively. * ¤ and ¥ are added at their locations from Windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1 (0xA4 and 0xA5). This collides with additions made to ISO 8859-7 in 2003, when

€ 


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and ₯ respectively were added to the same locations. The € was added to Windows-1253 at 0x80, the same location which it was added to in Windows-1252. An

iota subscript The iota subscript is a diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet shaped like a small vertical stroke or miniature iota placed below the letter. It can occur with the vowel letters eta , omega , and alpha . It represents the former presence of an o ...

(ͺ) was also added to ISO 8859-7 at 0xAA; this remains unallocated in Windows-1253. * Several further characters are added at their Windows-1252 locations, although the rest do not collide with ISO 8859-7. IBM uses code page 1253 (

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1253 and

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extended CCSID 5349) for Windows-1253.

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is preferred for Greek in modern applications, especially as

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encoding on the Internet. Unicode provides many more glyphs for complete coverage, see Greek alphabet in Unicode and

Ancient Greek Musical Notation Ancient Greek Musical Notation is a Unicode block containing symbols representing musical notations used in ancient Greece. Some can be used as rotated Greek letters (e.g. Α𝈗 Ε𝈧𝈨 Κ𝈎𝈲 Μ𝈌 Π𝈈 Ρ𝈃𝈇𝈟 Τ𝈜 Υ� ...

for tables.

Character set

The following table shows Windows-1253. Each character is shown with its

equivalent.

Footnotes

References

External links

Code page 1253 reference chart
{{character encoding Windows code pages

Character set

See also

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