Microsoft's version of
ISO-8859-1, the standard 8-bit character encoding for the
Latin alphabet used in
Western Europe.
All the characters from positions 0x0 to 0x127 (the standard ASCII character set) are the same as ISO-8859. Additionally, the characters from 0xA0 to 0xFF are identical to the standard. Windows-1252 diverges in the characters 0x80 to 0x9F, which ISO-8859-1 defines as the relatively unused C1 control characters from ISO-6429. It is in this range that Windows adds an eclectic collection of miscellaneous characters, including the Euro currency symbol, a few Eastern European characters, and the infamous "smart quotes".
Here is a list of these characters, along with their HTML equivalent as Unicode entities:
pos HTML description
0x80 € € euro currency symbol
0x81 undefined
0x82 ‚ ‚ single low-9 quotation mark
0x83 ƒ ƒ latin small letter f with hook
0x84 „ „ double low-9 quotation mark
0x85 … … horizontal ellipsis
0x86 † † dagger
0x87 ‡ ‡ double dagger
0x88 ˆ ˆ modifier letter circumflex accent
0x89 ‰ ‰ per mille sign
0x8A Š Š latin capital letter s with caron
0x8B ‹ ‹ single left-pointing angle quotation mark
0x8C Œ Œ latin capital ligature oe
0x8D undefined
0X8E Ž Ž latin capital letter z with caron
0x8F undefined
0x90 undefined
0x91 ‘ ‘ left single quotation mark
0x92 ’ ’ right single quotation mark
0x93 “ “ left double quotation mark
0x94 ” ” right double quotation mark
0x95 • • bullet
0x96 – – en dash
0x97 — — em dash
0x98 ˜ ˜ small tilde
0x99 ™ ™ trade mark sign
0x9A š š latin small letter s with caron
0x9B › › single right-pointing angle quotation mark
0x9C œ œ latin small ligature oe
0x9D undefined
0x9E ž ž latin small letter z with caron
0x9F Ÿ Ÿ latin capital letter y with diaeresis