Extended ASCII Table (Windows-1250)

ASCII stands for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Presented below is the extended ASCII table (Windows-1250), which includes hexadecimal, decimal, octal, binary, and HTML representations, along with a description of each character. The extended ASCII character set covers codes ranging from 128 to 255. You can paste the copyright sign "©" in the search bar to easily find the hex, decimal and bin values for copyright.

What is Extended ASCII (Windows-1250)

Windows-1250 is a Windows-1250, also known as CP1250 or Windows Central European, is an 8-bit character encoding used by Microsoft Windows to represent Central and Eastern European languages that use the Latin alphabet, such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, and Romanian. Microsoft introduced this in Windows Operating System and it is widely used for databases, text processing and embedded systems. Each character is represented by a single-byte (8-bits) and it includes supports for different symbols and characters that are primarily used by these languages. There are other character encodings that are also widely known i.e. Windows-1252 and UTF-8.

How many characters does Windows-1250 support?

• Windows-1250 is an 8-bit encoding and supports 256 characters.

• The first 128 characters (0–127) are standard ASCII.

• The next 128 characters (128–255) are extended characters for Central European letters, symbols, and diacritics.

How is Windows-1250 different from standard ASCII?

• Standard ASCII uses 7 bits (0–127) and supports only basic English characters.

• Windows-1250 extends this by adding 128 additional characters (128–255) to support Central European languages.

Which languages are supported by Windows-1250?

Windows-1250 supports languages such as:

• Polish

• Czech

• Slovak

• Hungarian

• Slovenian

• Croatian

• Bosnian

• Romanian (partially)

• Serbian (Latin script)

What is the extended ASCII value of Euro currency sign '€' in Windows-1250?

€ : Hex value = 0x80, Decimal value = 128

What is the extended ASCII value of Trade Mark sign '™' in Windows-1250?

™ : Hex value = 0x99, Decimal code = 153

What is the extended ASCII value of Copyright sign '©' in Windows-1250?

© : Hex value = 0xA9, Decimal code = 169

What is the extended ASCII value of Registered sign '®' in Windows-1250?

® : Hex value = 0xAE, Decimal code = 174

What is the extended ASCII value of Micro sign or Greek letter mu 'µ' in Windows-1250?

µ : Hex value = 0xB5, Decimal code = 181

How are the control characters handled in Windows-1250?

The first 32 characters (0–31 decimal) are reserved for control codes (same as ASCII).

These include NUL, BEL, LF, CR, and ESC etc.

From 128–159, Windows-1250 includes additional control and formatting symbols.

What is the byte size of each Windows-1250 character?

Windows-1250 is an 8-bit single-byte encoding:

• Each character occupies exactly 1 byte (0–255).

• Unlike UTF-8, there are no variable-length sequences.

by Wasim Khan and it was last modified on August 30, 2025

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