Code page 858 (

CCSID A CCSID (coded character set identifier) is a 16-bit number that represents a particular encoding of a specific code page. For example, Unicode is a code page that has several encoding (so called "transformation") forms, like UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF ...

858) (also known as CP 858, IBM 00858, OEM 858) is a

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used under

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to write Western European languages. Similarly to

code page 850 Code page 850 ( CCSID 850) (also known as CP 850, IBM 00850, OEM 850, DOS Latin 1) 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 i ...

, code page 858 supports the entire repertoire of ISO 8859-1, but in a different arrangement. Code page 858 was created from code page 850 in 1998 by changing code point 213 (D5_hex) from

dotless i I, or ı, called dotless I, is a letter used in the Latin-script alphabets of Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Kazakh, Tatar, Kyrgyz, and Turkish. It commonly represents the close back unrounded vowel , except in Kazakh where it represen ...

(ı) (a character not included in ISO-8859-1) to the

euro sign The euro sign () is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and unilaterally adopted by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists ...

(€). Unlike most code pages modified to support the euro sign, the generic

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at CF_hex (an ISO-8859-1 character, changed to the euro sign in

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) was not chosen as the character to replace. Still, instead of adding support for the new code page 858, IBM's

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, also released in 1998, changed the definition of the existing code page 850 to what IBM called ''modified code page 850'' to include the euro sign at code point 213. More recent IBM/MS products implemented codepage 858 under its own ID.

Character set

The following table shows code page 858. Each character appears with its equivalent

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code-point. The decimal value of the location is the

Alt code On personal computers with numeric keypads that use Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows, many characters that do not have a dedicated key combination on the keyboard may nevertheless be entered using the Alt code (the Alt numpad input me ...

. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as

Notes

References

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