Editing Windows-1255 (section)

{{Short description|Windows character set for Hebrew}}
{{Infobox character encoding
| name     = Windows-1255
| mime     = windows-1255
| image    = 
| caption  = 
| alias    = cp1255 ([[Code page]] 1255)
| by       = [[Microsoft]]
| standard = [[WHATWG]] Encoding Standard
| lang     = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[English language|English]]
| status   =
| extends  = 
| prev     = 
| next     = 
| encodes  = 
| classification = [[extended ASCII]], [[Windows-125x]]
| otherrelated = [[ISO-8859-8]]
}}
'''Windows-1255''' (referred to as "ANSI" especially often) is a [[code page]] used under [[Microsoft Windows]] to write [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]. It is an almost compatible superset of [[ISO-8859-8]]{{snd}} most of the symbols are in the same positions (except for A4, which is 'sheqel sign' in Windows-1255 but 'generic currency sign' in ISO 8859-8 and except for DF, which is undefined in Windows-1255 but 'double low line' in ISO 8859-8), but Windows-1255 adds vowel-points and other signs in lower positions.

[[IBM]] uses code page 1255 ([[CCSID]] 1255, [[euro sign]] extended CCSID 5351, and the further extended CCSID 9447) for Windows-1255.<ref>{{cite web|title=Code page 1255 information document|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000740/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01255.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|url=https://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01255.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CCSID 1255 information document|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327040012/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1255.html|archive-date=2016-03-27|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1255.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CCSID 5351 information document|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129223153/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid5351.html|archive-date=2014-11-29|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid5351.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CCSID 9447 information document|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326202305/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid9447.html|archive-date=2016-03-26|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid9447.html}}</ref>

Modern applications prefer [[Unicode]] to Windows-1255, especially on the Internet;<ref>{{Cite journal|last=John|first=Nicholas A.|date=2013|title=The Construction of the Multilingual Internet: Unicode, Hebrew, and Globalization|journal=Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|quote=Background: the problem of Hebrew and the Internet|language=en|volume=18|issue=3|pages=321–338|doi=10.1111/jcc4.12015|issn=1083-6101|doi-access=free}}</ref> meaning [[UTF-8]], the dominant encoding for web pages, or [[UTF-16]]. Windows-1255 is used by less than 0.1% of websites.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-windows1255/all/all|title=Usage Statistics of Windows-1255 for Websites, January 2019|website=w3techs.com|access-date=2019-01-17}}</ref>