Windows 1256

File Format
Name	Windows 1256
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Character encoding Windows encodings Windows 1256
Wikidata ID	Q825466
IANA charset	windows-1256
IANA aliases	cswindows1256
IANA MIBenum	2256
Code Page	1256
CFStringEncoding	1286

Windows 1256 (CP1256, Windows-1256, Windows CP1256, Windows Arabic) is a character encoding used in Microsoft Windows systems, aimed at Arabic. It is one of the Windows encodings. It is different from ISO 8859-6. It no longer gets much online use, as Unicode is preferred.

References

• Code chart at KreativeKorp
• Code chart at Microsoft
• Unicode mapping
• Another Unicode mapping (best fit)
• Wikipedia article