Computer Encoding
There are several different systems for encoding the Polish alphabet for computers. All letters of the Polish alphabet are included in Unicode, and thus Unicode-based encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16 can be used. The Polish alphabet is completely included in the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. The standard 8-bit character encoding for the Polish alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), although both ISO 8859-13 (Latin-7) and ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10) encodings include glyphs of the Polish alphabet. Microsoft's format for encoding the Polish alphabet is Windows-1250.
The Polish letters which are not present in the English alphabet have the following HTML codes and Unicode codepoints:
| Upper case | Ą | Ć | Ę | Ł | Ń | Ó | Ś | Ź | Ż |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML entity | Ą | Ć | Ę | Ł | Ń | Ó Ó |
Ś | Ź | Ż |
| Unicode | U+0104 | U+0106 | U+0118 | U+0141 | U+0143 | U+00D3 | U+015A | U+0179 | U+017B |
| Result | Ą | Ć | Ę | Ł | Ń | Ó | Ś | Ź | Ż |
| Lower case | ą | ć | ę | ł | ń | ó | ś | ź | ż |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML entity | ą | ć | ę | ł | ń | ó ó |
ś | ź | ż |
| Unicode | U+0105 | U+0107 | U+0119 | U+0142 | U+0144 | U+00F3 | U+015B | U+017A | U+017C |
| Result | ą | ć | ę | ł | ń | ó | ś | ź | ż |
For other encodings, see Polish code pages.
A common test sentence containing all the Polish diacritic letters is nonsensical Zażółć gęślą jaźń.
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