Character Sets

AlbumEasy is able to processes text files encoded with either the Unicode or Latin 1 character sets. The actual character set in use is specified in the configuration dialogue box.

Unicode (UTF-8)

Unicode containing over 110,000 characters is able to encode almost every writing system in use worldwide. AlbumEasy supports UTF-8, one of the more popular Unicode encoding standards.

Latin 1 (Windows CP1252)

The Latin 1 character set, also known as ISO-8859-1 consists of 191 "Latin Script" characters. It is the default character set for Western Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and most of Africa.

Unfortunately ISO-8859-1 omits a few characters that may be of use to philatelists, the most notable of which is the Euro symbol. So instead AlbumEasy uses Windows CP1252 which is a superset of ISO-8859-1.

It should therefore be noted that the use of Latin 1 in relation to AlbumEasy is not strictly correct as it actually refers to the Windows CP1252 encoding instead of ISO-8859-1.

The table below illustrates the characters provided by ISO-88591-1 and Windows CP1252.
Characters common to both are shown in black, the additional Windows CP1252 characters are shown in red.

ISO-8859-1 / Windows-CP-1252