Windows-1256

Windows-1256
MIME / IANA	windows-1256
Alias(es)	cp1256 ( Windows-125x
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Windows-1256 is a

Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu

.

This code page is neither compatible with

ISO-8859-6 nor the MacArabic

encoding.

Windows-1256 encodes every abstract single letter of the basic Arabic alphabet, not every concrete visual form of isolated, initial, medial, final or ligatured letter shape variants (i.e. it encodes characters, not glyphs). The Arabic letters in the C0-FF range are in Arabic alphabetic order, but some Latin characters are interspersed among them. These are some Windows-1252 Latin characters used for French, since this European language has some historic relevance in former French colonies in North Africa such as Morocco and Algeria. This allowed French and Arabic text to be intermixed when using Windows 1256 without any need for code-page switching (however, upper-case letters with diacritics were not included).

IBM uses code page 1256 (CCSID 1256, euro sign extended CCSID 5352, and the further extended CCSID 9448) for Windows-1256.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

ISO-8859-6 that do not cover extras). Less than 0.03% of all web pages use Windows-1256 in October 2022,^[5]^[6]

and while that encoding is mostly used for Arabic, and second-most popular for it, it is only used for 1.6% of the Arabic text on the web.

Character set

Since the original

Urdu languages), plus the euro sign.^[8]

The following table shows the extended version of Windows-1256. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent and its decimal code.

Here every Arabic letter is shown in isolated form. The actual forms of the letters inside Arabic words are rendered by a combination of software rules and appropriate font support.

Windows-1256^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	NUL	SOH	STX	ETX	EOT	ENQ	ACK	BEL	BS	HT	LF	VT	FF	CR	SO	SI
1x	DLE	DC1	DC2	DC3	DC4	NAK	SYN	ETB	CAN	EM	SUB	ESC	FS	GS	RS	US
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	]	^	_
6x	`	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o
7x	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	{	\|	}	~	DEL
8x	€	پ	‚	ƒ	„	…	†	‡	ˆ	‰	ٹ	‹	Œ	چ	ژ	ڈ
9x	گ	‘	’	“	”	•	–	—	ک	™	ڑ	›	œ	ZWNJ	ZWJ	ں
Ax	NBSP	،	¢	£	¤	¥	¦	§	¨	©	ھ	«	¬	SHY	®	¯
Bx	°	±	²	³	´	µ	¶	·	¸	¹	؛	»	¼	½	¾	؟
Cx	ہ	ء	آ	أ	ؤ	إ	ئ	ا	ب	ة	ت	ث	ج	ح	خ	د
Dx	ذ	ر	ز	س	ش	ص	ض	×	ط	ظ	ع	غ	ـ	ف	ق	ك
Ex	à	ل	â	م	ن	ه	و	ç	è	é	ê	ë	ى	ي	î	ï
Fx	ً	ٌ	ٍ	َ	ô	ُ	ِ	÷	ّ	ù	ْ	û	ü	LRM	RLM	ے

Differences from Windows-1252

References

^ "Code page 1256 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
^ "CCSID 1256 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
^ "CCSID 5352 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
^ "CCSID 9448 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
^ "Historical trends in the usage of character encodings for websites, October 2022". w3techs.com.
^ "Frequently Asked Questions". w3techs.com.
^ Archiveddocs. "Code Page 1256 Windows Arabic". docs.microsoft.com.
^ ^a ^b "cp1256 to Unicode table" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^ Unicode mappings of windows 1256 with "best fit"
^ Code Page CPGID 01256 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
^ Code Page CPGID 01256 (txt), IBM
^ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1256_P110-1997.ucm, 2002-12-03
^ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-5352_P100-1998.ucm, 2002-12-03
^ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-9448_X100-2005.ucm, 2005-11-15

External links

[1] "Code page 1256 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.

[2] "CCSID 1256 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.

[3] "CCSID 5352 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.

[4] "CCSID 9448 information document". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.

[5] "Historical trends in the usage of character encodings for websites, October 2022". w3techs.com.

[6] "Frequently Asked Questions". w3techs.com.

[7] Archiveddocs. "Code Page 1256 Windows Arabic". docs.microsoft.com.

[cp1256-8] "cp1256 to Unicode table" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.

[9] Unicode mappings of windows 1256 with "best fit"

[10] Code Page CPGID 01256 (pdf) (PDF), IBM

[11] Code Page CPGID 01256 (txt), IBM

[12] International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1256_P110-1997.ucm, 2002-12-03

[13] International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-5352_P100-1998.ucm, 2002-12-03

[14] International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-9448_X100-2005.ucm, 2005-11-15

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