Examples of CP1252 and ISO-8859-1 Encodings

This section provides examples of encoded byte sequences of the JVM default encoding, CP1252 encoding, on a Windows system. The ISO-8859-1 encoding is slightly different that the CP1252 encoding.

Running the testing program with Java 11, EncodingSampler2.java, provided in the previous section without any argument will use the JVM's default character encoding:

C:\herong>javac EncodingSampler2.java

C:\herong>java EncodingSampler2
Default (Cp1252) encoding:
Char,     String, Writer, Charset, Encoder
00000000, 00, 00, 00, 00
0000003F, 3F, 3F, 3F, 3F
00000040, 40, 40, 40, 40
0000007F, 7F, 7F, 7F, 7F
00000080, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
000000BF, BF, BF, BF, BF
000000C0, C0, C0, C0, C0
000000FF, FF, FF, FF, FF
00000100, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00003FFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00004000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00007FFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00008000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000BFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000C000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000EFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000F000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000FFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F108, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F132, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F1A0, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00

The results shows that:

Running the program again with 'CP1252' as the argument should give us the same output as the previous run:

C:\herong>java EncodingSampler2 CP1252
CP1252 encoding:
Char,     String, Writer, Charset, Encoder
00000000, 00, 00, 00, 00
0000003F, 3F, 3F, 3F, 3F
00000040, 40, 40, 40, 40
0000007F, 7F, 7F, 7F, 7F
00000080, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
000000BF, BF, BF, BF, BF
000000C0, C0, C0, C0, C0
000000FF, FF, FF, FF, FF
00000100, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00003FFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00004000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00007FFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00008000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000BFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000C000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000EFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000F000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000FFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F108, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F132, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F1A0, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00

Let's try another encoding, ISO-8859-1:

C:\herong>java EncodingSampler2 ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1 encoding:
Char, String, Writer, Charset, Encoder
ISO-8859-1 encoding:
Char,     String, Writer, Charset, Encoder
00000000, 00, 00, 00, 00
0000003F, 3F, 3F, 3F, 3F
00000040, 40, 40, 40, 40
0000007F, 7F, 7F, 7F, 7F
00000080, 80, 80, 80, 80
000000BF, BF, BF, BF, BF
000000C0, C0, C0, C0, C0
000000FF, FF, FF, FF, FF
00000100, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00003FFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00004000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00007FFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
00008000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000BFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000C000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000EFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000F000, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0000FFFF, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F108, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F132, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00
0001F1A0, 3F, 3F, 3F, 00

ISO-8859-1 encoding is different than CP1252 encoding. As you can see in the output, 0x80 is a valid character in the ISO-8859-1 character set, but not valid in the CP1252 character set.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Character Sets and Encodings

 ASCII Character Set and Encoding

 GB2312 Character Set and Encoding

 GB18030 Character Set and Encoding

 JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

 Unicode Character Set

 UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)

 UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings

 UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings

 Python Language and Unicode Characters

 Java Language and Unicode Characters

Character Encoding in Java

 What Is Character Encoding

 List of Supported Character Encodings in Java

 EncodingSampler.java - Testing encode() Methods

Examples of CP1252 and ISO-8859-1 Encodings

 Examples of US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 Encodings

 Examples of GB18030 Encoding

 Testing decode() Methods

 Character Set Encoding Maps

 Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files

 Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode Text Editor

 Unicode Fonts

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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