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Code page 850

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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...

Windows code page

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Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms. There are two groups of code pages in Windows systems: OEM and ANSI code pages. Code pages in both of these groups are extended ASCII code pages. Contents 1 ANSI code page 2 OEM code page 3 History 4 List 5 Problems arising from the use of code pages 6 See also 7 References 8 External links ANSI code page Windows-125x series Alias(es) ANSI (misnomer) Standard WHATWG Encoding Standard Extends US-ASCII Preceded by ISO 8859 Succeeded by Unicode UTF-16 (in Win32 API) v t e ANSI code pages (officially called "Windows code pages" [1] after Microsoft accepted the former term bei...