Code page 850
Code page 850 Code page 850 character set with 9×14 glyphs, as usually rendered by Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) Alias(es) DOS Latin 1, OEM 850 Language(s) English, various others Classification Extended ASCII, OEM code page Extends US-ASCII Based on OEM-US Transforms / Encodes ISO/IEC 8859-1 (reordered) v t e Code page 850 (also known as CP 850, IBM 00850, [1] OEM 850, [2] DOS Latin 1 [3] ) is a code page used under DOS and Psion’s EPOC16 operating systems in Western Europe. Depending on the country setting and system configuration, code page 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page in many countries, including various English-speaking locales (e.g. in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada), whilst other English-speaking locales (like the United States) default to use the hardware code page 437. [4] Code page 850 differs from code page 437 in that many of the box drawing characters, Greek letters, and various symbols w...