Windows-1254


Windows-1254 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to write Turkish. 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.
The WHATWG Encoding Standard, which specifies the character encodings which are permitted in HTML5 and which compliant browsers must support, includes Windows-1254, which is used for both the Windows-1254 and ISO-8859-9 labels. Unicode is preferred for modern applications; authors of new pages and the designers of new protocols are instructed to use UTF-8 instead., 0.1% of all web pages use Windows-1254, and 0.1% use ISO-8859-9, which the WHATWG requires the browser to handle as Windows-1254. However, 2.3% of all websites located in Turkey use Windows-1254, and 3.1% of them use ISO-8859-9.
IBM uses code page 1254 for Windows-1254.

Character set

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