Code page 863 (
CCSID
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863) (also known as CP 863, IBM 00863, OEM 863, MS-DOS French Canada
[) is a ]code page
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used under DOS
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in Canada
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to write FrenchQuebec
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) although it lacks the letters Æ, æ, Œ, œ, Ÿ and ÿ.
Character set
Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode
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code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as code page 437
Code page 437 ( CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, PC-8, or MS-DOS Latin US. The set includes all printable ASCII characters as well as some accented letters (di ...
.
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