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[[Microsoft]] defined a number of proprietary code page extensions which were subtly incompatible with those by other vendors.
The most notable of these is the [[windows-1252]] code page, which contains a range of [[typography|typographical]] punctuation characters, the euro sign, and a few other special characters, in character positions which were reserved for [[control character]]s in the [[ISO 8859-1]] "latin-1" code page.
Many Microsoft products produce characters in these ranges automatically, notably with ‘smartquotes’. This means that other software has to choose between
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