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Where can I find information about which code page is default for each language version of Windows? I.e the "ANSI" code page for each language version.
I've found the Code Pages Supported by Windows, but I cannot find the defaults for each language.
I'm guessing that for instance, Windows-1253 (Greek) is the default when installing the Greek language version. But what about the other code pages? And is Windows-1253 the default for any other language version?
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Windows-125x series They are commonly known by their IANA-registered names as windows-<number> , but are also sometimes called cp<number> , "cp" for "code page". They are all used as ANSI code pages; Windows-1258 is also used as an OEM code page.
UTF-8 is the universal code page for internationalization and is able to encode the entire Unicode character set. It is used pervasively on the web, and is the default for *nix-based platforms.
Code page could be understood as a set of rules for encoding of character set. And character set, as the name indicates, is a set of characters from one or more languages/character sets.
Following Mihai Nita's advice, I extracted the following data. For brevity, I summarized some languages with many variants into xx-*.
These are ISO 639-1 language codes. Wikipedia also has more info on the code pages.
Windows-1250 / Latin-2 (Central European)
bs, bs-Latn, bs-Latn-BA, cs, cs-CZ, hr, hr-BA, hr-HR, hu, hu-HU, hu-HU_technl, pl, pl-PL, ro, ro-MD, ro-RO, sk, sk-SK, sl, sl-SI, sq, sq-AL, sq-MK, sq-XK, sr, sr-Latn, sr-Latn-BA, sr-Latn-ME, sr-Latn-RS, sr-Latn-XK, tk, tk-TM
Windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
az-Cyrl, az-Cyrl-AZ, ba, ba-RU, be, be-BY, bg, bg-BG, bs-Cyrl, bs-Cyrl-BA, ky, ky-KG, mk, mk-MK, mn, mn-Cyrl, mn-MN, ru, ru-BY, ru-KG, ru-KZ, ru-MD, ru-RU, ru-UA, sah, sah-RU, sr-Cyrl, sr-Cyrl-BA, sr-Cyrl-ME, sr-Cyrl-RS, sr-Cyrl-XK, tg, tg-Cyrl, tg-Cyrl-TJ, tt, tt-RU, uk, uk-UA, uz-Cyrl, uz-Cyrl-UZ
Windows-1252 / Latin-1 (Western European)
af, af-NA, af-ZA, arn, arn-CL, bin, bin-NG, br, br-FR, ca, ca-AD, ca-ES, ca-es-*, ca-FR, ca-IT, co, co-FR, cy, cy-GB, da, da-DK, da-GL, de, de-*, dsb, dsb-DE, en, en-*, es, es-*, eu, eu-ES, ff, ff-*, fi, fi-*, fil, fil-PH, fo, fo-FO, fr, fr-*, fy, fy-NL, ga, ga-IE, gd, gd-GB, gl, gl-ES, gn, gn-PY, gsw, gsw-CH, gsw-FR, gsw-LI, ha, ha-*, haw, haw-US, hsb, hsb-DE, ibb, ibb-NG, id, id-ID, ig, ig-NG, is, is-IS, it, it-CH, it-IT, it-SM, iu, iu-Latn, iu-Latn-CA, jv, jv-Java, jv-Java-ID, jv-Latn, jv-Latn-ID, kl, kl-GL, kr, kr-Latn, kr-Latn-NG, la, la-001, lb, lb-LU, moh, moh-CA, ms, ms-BN, ms-MY, ms-SG, nb, nb-NO, nb-SJ, nl, nl-*, nn, nn-NO, no, nso, nso-ZA, oc, oc-FR, pap, pap-029, pt, pt-*, quc, quc-Latn, quc-Latn-GT, quz, quz-BO, quz-EC, quz-PE, rm, rm-CH, rw, rw-RW, se, se-FI, se-NO, se-SE, sma, sma-NO, sma-SE, smj, smj-NO, smj-SE, smn, smn-FI, sms, sms-FI, sv, sv-AX, sv-FI, sv-SE, sw, sw-CD, sw-KE, sw-TZ, sw-UG, tn, tn-BW, tn-ZA, tzm, tzm-Latn, tzm-Latn-DZ, wo, wo-SN, x-IV_mathan, xh, xh-ZA, yo, yo-BJ, yo-NG, zu, zu-ZA
Windows-1253 (Greek)
el, el-CY, el-GR
Windows-1254 (Turkish)
az, az-Latn, az-Latn-AZ, tr, tr-CY, tr-TR, uz, uz-Latn, uz-Latn-UZ
Windows-1255 (Hebrew)
he, he-IL
Windows-1256 (Arabic)
ar, ar-*, fa, fa-IR, ku, ku-Arab, ku-Arab-IQ, pa-Arab, pa-Arab-PK, prs, prs-AF, sd, sd-Arab, sd-Arab-PK, tzm-Arab, tzm-Arab-MA, ug, ug-CN, ur, ur-IN, ur-PK
Windows-1257 (Baltic)
et, et-EE, lt, lt-LT, lv, lv-LV
Windows 1258 (Vietnamese)
vi, vi-VN
CP874: ISO 8859-11 (Thai)
th, th-TH
CP932: Shift JIS (Japanese)
ja, ja-JP, ja-JP_radstr
CP936: GBK (Chinese)
zh, zh-CN, zh-CN_phoneb, zh-CN_stroke, zh-Hans, zh-Hans-HK, zh-Hans-MO, zh-SG, zh-SG_phoneb, zh-SG_stroke
CP949: Unified Hangul Code (Korean)
ko, ko-KR
CP950: Big5 (Chinese)
zh-Hant, zh-HK, zh-HK_radstr, zh-MO, zh-MO_radstr, zh-MO_stroke, zh-TW, zh-TW_pronun, zh-TW_radstr
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You can enumerate all the locales (using EnumSystemLocales/EnumSystemLocalesEx), then get the ANSI code page (GetLocaleInfo/GetLocaleInfoEx with LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE).
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