Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode in their products. Windows NT was the first operating system that used "wide characters"...
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both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used. Current Windows versions support Unicode, new Windows applications...
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original (PDF) on 2019-05-03. Microsoft's code charts for Windows-1252 ("Code Page 1252 Windows Latin 1 (ANSI)") Unicode mapping table and code page definition...
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defined by Microsoft, encompasses all the characters found in Windows code pages 1252 (Windows Western), 1250 (Windows Central European), 1251 (Windows Cyrillic)...
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Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993. It marked the company's...
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select Unicode characters visually. ISO/IEC 14755 refers to this as a screen-selection entry method. Microsoft Windows has provided a Unicode version...
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Microsoft Windows code page 932 (abbreviated MS932, Windows-932 or ambiguously CP932), also called Windows-31J amongst other names (see § Terminology below)...
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pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus supporting most Microsoft code pages, but also requiring much more storage space...
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UTF-16. Windows-1255 is used by less than 0.1% of websites. The following table shows Windows-1255. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent...
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Page 1256 Windows Arabic". docs.microsoft.com. "cp1256 to Unicode table" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31. Unicode mappings of windows 1256 with...
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Wingdings (redirect from Microsoft Wingdings)
TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version 3.1 until Windows Vista/Server 2008, and also in a number of application packages...
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Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 or abbreviated as cp1253, is a Microsoft Windows code...
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Windows Console is a GUI application for running console applications in Windows. Windows Console is used for running text-based programs such as operating...
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Windows Notepad is a simple text editor for Windows; it creates and edits plain text documents. It was first released in 1983 to commercialize the computer...
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of typefaces shipped with Windows 3.1x through to Windows 11. Typefaces only shipped with Microsoft Office or other Microsoft applications are not included...
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Windows 11 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft that was released in October 2021. Starting with Windows 10, Microsoft...
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Text file (section Microsoft Windows text files)
line-drawing characters common in DOS applications. "Unicode"-encoded Microsoft Windows text files contain text in UTF-16 Unicode Transformation Format. Such...
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partial Unicode encoding support be installed on Windows 9x via the Microsoft Layer for Unicode. Windows 9x does not natively support NTFS or HPFS; however...
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Windows-1258 is a code page used in Microsoft Windows to represent Vietnamese texts. It makes use of combining diacritical marks. Windows-1258 is compatible...
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WordPad (redirect from Microsoft Wordpad)
designed by Microsoft that was included in versions of Windows from Windows 95 through Windows 11, version 23H2. Similarly to its predecessor Microsoft Write...
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for Windows and Mac OS, dubbed version 6.0, both started from the code base of Word for Windows 2.0. With the release of Word 6.0 in 1993, Microsoft again...
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Character Map is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard...
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Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It...
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Alt code (redirect from Entering foreign characters in Windows)
CP1252. Later versions of Windows and applications such as Microsoft Word supported Unicode. As Unicode included all the characters in the MSDOS code pages...
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Unicode is now the standard encoding for many new standards and protocols, and is built into the architecture of operating systems (Microsoft Windows...
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desktop app, a mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and Symbian, and a Metro-style app for Windows 8 or later. Microsoft Outlook (not to be confused...
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Bigelow in 1993, and was first shipped with the Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 operating system. The font comes pre-installed with all Microsoft Windows versions...
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Windows code page 936 (abbreviated MS936, Windows-936 or (ambiguously) CP936), is Microsoft's legacy (pre-Unicode) character encoding for representing...
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Microsoft Sans Serif is a sans-serif typeface introduced with early Microsoft Windows versions. It is the successor of MS Sans Serif, formerly Helv, a...
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version of Microsoft Outlook, included in Microsoft 365, Exchange Server, and Exchange Online (domain outlook.office365.com) Outlook for Windows, a new,...
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