Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use Latin script, such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Romanian (before 1993 spelling reform) and Albanian.It may also be used with the German language; German-language texts encoded with …

Usage Current usage. In standard German, three letters or combinations of letters commonly represent (the voiceless alveolar fricative) depending on its position in a word: s , ss , and ß .According to current German orthography, ß represents the sound : . when it is written after a diphthong or long vowel and is not followed by another consonant in the word stem: Straße, …