Windows-1253
Windows-1253
Windows character set for Greek alphabet
Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"),[1] commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253[2] or abbreviated as cp1253,[3][4] is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek.
It is not fully compatible with ISO 8859-7 because a few characters, including the letter Ά, are located at different byte values:
µ
[lower-alpha 1] and¶
are added at their locations from Windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1 (0xB5 and 0xB6). This collides with the locations of΅
andΆ
, 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΅
andΆ
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€
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 (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 (CCSID 1253 and euro sign extended CCSID 5349) for Windows-1253.[5][6][7]
Unicode is preferred for Greek in modern applications, especially as UTF-8 encoding on the Internet. Unicode provides many more glyphs for complete coverage, see Greek alphabet in Unicode and Ancient Greek Musical Notation for tables.