Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 or abbreviated as cp1253, is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek. It is not fully compatible with ISO 8859-7 because a few characters, including the letter Ά, are located at different byte values: IBM uses code page 1253 (CCSID 1253 and euro sign extended CCSID 5349) for Windows-1253. Unicode is preferred for Greek in modern applications, especially as UTF-8 encoding on the Internet. Unicode provides many more glyphs for complete coverage, see Greek alphabet in Unicode and Ancient Greek Musical Notation for tables.

Character set

The following table shows Windows-1253. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent. {{legend|#FFD|Differences from ISO 8859-7}}

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