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code page

A table that describes a character set for a particular speaking language. It is used by the operating system to display and print a language properly. The code page defines 256 characters based on the 256 possible combinations in a single byte. For most code pages, the first 128 characters conform to the ASCII standard.

Following are commonly used code pages. The DOS code pages are still used in a DOS window in Windows. See ASCII and Unicode.

 ANSI/WINDOWS AND ISO CODE PAGES
 (ISO and ANSI/Windows are not identical.)

 Language     Name        ANSI/Windows    ISO

 WESTERN EUROPE:
 English, Spanish, French, German, Italian,
 Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish,
 Norwegian, Swedish, Basque, Catalan,

              Latin 1     windows-1252   8859-1
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 CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE:
 Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Czech
 Albanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene

              Latin 2     windows-1250   8859-2
 ----------------------------------------------
 Arabic       Arabic      windows-1256   8859-6

 Greek        Greek       windows-1253   8859-7

 Hebrew       Hebrew      windows-1255   8859-8


 Latvian      Baltic      windows-1257   8859-13
 Lithuanian

 Russian      Cyrillic    windows-1251   8859-5

 Thai         Thai        windows-874    8859-11

 Turkish      Turkish     windows-1254   8859-9

 Vietnamese   Vietnamese  windows-1258   8859-1



 DOS CODE PAGES/OEM CODE PAGES

 (Three prefixes used for DOS code page numbers,
  for example: code page 858 can be
  CP 858, IBM 858 or OEM 858)

 Language         Name         Code Page #

 Western Europe   1st PC           437

 Western Europe   Latin 1          850

 Western Europe
 with Euro        Multilingual     858

 Central/
 Eastern Europe   Latin 2          852

 French Canadian  French Canadian  863

 Greek            Greek            737

 Icelandic        Icelandic        861

 Portuguese       Portuguese       860

 Russian          Cyrillic         855

 Turkish          Turkish          857

 Danish,
 Finnish,
 Norwegian,
 Swedish          Nordic           865