Windows-1252

Windows-1252 is a character encoding standard used primarily for Western European languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, and many others. It is a superset of the ISO 8859-1 (also known as ISO Latin-1) encoding standard, which defines a set of 256 characters, including letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and symbols. Windows-1252 extends this standard to include additional characters and symbols commonly used in Western European languages, such as the euro symbol and various accented letters. It is widely used on Microsoft Windows-based computers and is considered the default character encoding for many Western European languages.