Windows code pages are sets of characters or

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(known as

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s in other operating systems) used in

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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 Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when

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shortcuts are used. There are two groups of system code pages in Windows systems: OEM and Windows-native ("ANSI") code pages. (ANSI is the

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.) Code pages in both of these groups are

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code pages. Additional code pages are supported by standard Windows conversion routines, but not used as either type of system code page.

ANSI code page

ANSI code pages (officially called "Windows code pages" after Microsoft accepted the former term being a misnomer ) are used for native non-Unicode (say,

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) applications using a

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on Windows systems. The term "ANSI" is a misnomer because these Windows code pages do not comply with any ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard; code page 1252 was based on an early ANSI draft that became the international standard

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, which adds a further 32 control codes and space for 96 printable characters. Among other differences, Windows code-pages allocate printable characters to the supplementary control code space, making them at best illegible to standards-compliant operating systems.) Most legacy "ANSI" code pages have code page numbers in the pattern 125x. However, 874 (Thai) and the East Asian multi-byte "ANSI" code pages (

932 Year 932 ( CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome against his stepfather Hugh of Provence ...

936 Year 936 ( CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * June 19 – At Laon, Louis IV, the 14-year old son of the late King Charles the Simp ...

, 949,

950 Year 950 ( CML) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: A Hamdanid army (30,000 men) led by Sayf al-Dawla raids int ...

), all of which are also used as OEM code pages, are numbered to match IBM encodings, none of which are identical to the Windows encodings (although most are similar). While code page 1258 is also used as an OEM code page, it is original to Microsoft rather than an extension to an existing encoding. IBM have assigned their own, different numbers for Microsoft's variants, these are given for reference in the lists below where applicable. All of the 125x Windows code pages, as well as 874 and 936, are labelled by

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(IANA) as "Windows-''number''", although "Windows-936" is treated as a synonym for " GBK". Windows code page 932 is instead labelled as "Windows-31J". ANSI Windows code pages, and especially the code page

1252 Year 1252 ( MCCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona is assassinated by Carino of Balsamo. * May 15 – P ...

, were so called since they were purportedly based on drafts submitted or intended for ANSI. However, ANSI and ISO have not standardized any of these code pages. Instead they are either: * Supersets of the standard sets such as those of

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and the various national standards (like

Windows-1252 Windows-1252 or CP-1252 ( code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows for English and many European languages including Spanish, French, and German. ...

vs.

ISO-8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in ...

), * Major modifications of these (making them incompatible to various degrees, like

Windows-1250 Windows-1250 is a code page used under Microsoft Windows to represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use Latin script, such as Czech (which is its main user with half its use, though Czech has 96.6% use of UTF-8, an ...

vs.

ISO-8859-2 ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. I ...

) * Having no parallel encoding (like

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vs. ISO-8859-4; ISO-8859-13 was introduced much later). Also,

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follows neither the ISO-standardised

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nor the then-prevailing

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. Microsoft assigned about twelve of the

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and business characters (including notably, the

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, €) in CP1252 to the

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s 0x80–0x9F that, in ISO 8859, are assigned to

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. These assignments are also present in many other ANSI/Windows code pages at the same code-points. Windows did not use the C1 control codes, so this decision had no direct effect on Windows users. However, if included in a file transferred to a standards-compliant platform like Unix or MacOS, the information was invisible and potentially disruptive.

OEM code page

The OEM code pages (

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) are used by

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applications, and by virtual DOS, and can be considered a holdover from

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and the original

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architecture. A separate suite of code pages was implemented not only due to compatibility, but also because the fonts of VGA (and descendant) hardware suggest encoding of line-drawing characters to be compatible with

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. Most OEM code pages share many code points, particularly for non-letter characters, with the second (non-ASCII) half of CP437. A typical OEM code page, in its second half, does not resemble any ANSI/Windows code page even roughly. Nevertheless, two single-byte, fixed-width code pages (874 for Thai and 1258 for

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) and four multibyte CJK code pages (

, 949,

) are used as both OEM and ANSI code pages. Code page 1258 uses combining diacritics, as Vietnamese requires more than 128 letter-diacritic combinations. This is in contrast to VISCII, which replaces some of the C0 (i.e. ASCII) control codes.

History

Initially, computer systems and system programming languages did not make a distinction between

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s and

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s: for the segmental scripts used in most of Africa, the Americas, southern and south-east Asia, the Middle East and Europe, a character needs just one byte, but two or more bytes are needed for the

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sets used in the rest of the world. This led to much confusion subsequently. Microsoft software and systems prior to the

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line are examples of this, because they use the OEM and ANSI code pages that do not make the distinction. Since the late 1990s, software and systems have adopted

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as their preferred storage format; this trend has been improved by the widespread adoption of

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which default to

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but also provides a mechanism for labelling the encoding used. All current Microsoft products and

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use Unicode internally, but some applications continue to use the default encoding of the computer's 'locale' when reading and writing text data to files or standard output. Therefore, files may still be encountered that are legible and intelligible in one part of the world but unintelligible

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in another.

UTF-8, UTF-16

Microsoft adopted a Unicode encoding (first the now-obsolete

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, which was then Unicode's only encoding), i.e.

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for all its

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s from Windows NT onwards, but now additionally supports and recommends using

(aka CP_UTF8). UTF-16 uniquely encodes all Unicode characters in the

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(BMP) using 16 bits but the remaining Unicode (e.g.

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s) is encoded with a 32-bit (four byte) code while the rest of the industry (

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systems and the web), and now Microsoft chose

(which uses one byte for the 7-bit

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character set, two or three bytes for other characters in the BMP, and four bytes for the remainder). Since Windows 10 version 1803, Windows machines can be configured to allow UTF-8 as the "ANSI" and OEM codepage.

List

The following Windows code pages exist:

Windows-125x series

These nine code pages are all

8-bit

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encodings, and were designed by

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for use as ANSI codepages on Windows. They are commonly known by their IANA-registered names as windows-<number>, but are also sometimes called cp<number>, "cp" for "code page". They are all used as ANSI code pages; Windows-1258 is also used as an OEM code page. The Windows-125x series includes nine of the ANSI code pages, and mostly covers scripts from

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and

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with the addition of

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. System encodings for Thai and for

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n languages were numbered to match similar IBM code pages and are used as both ANSI and OEM code pages; these are covered in following sections.

DOS code pages

These are also ASCII-based. Most of these are included for use as OEM code pages; code page 874 is also used as an ANSI code page. *

437 __NOTOC__ Year 437 ( CDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aetius and Sigisvultus (or, less frequently, year 1190 ...

– IBM PC US, 8-bit

. Known as OEM-US, the encoding of the primary built-in font of VGA graphics cards. * 708 – Arabic, extended

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(ASMO 708) *

720 __NOTOC__ Year 720 ( DCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 720 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

– Arabic, retaining box drawing characters in their usual locations * 737 – "MS-DOS Greek". Retains all box drawing characters. More popular than 869. *

775 __NOTOC__ Year 775 ( DCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 775 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

– "MS-DOS Baltic Rim" * 850 – "MS-DOS Latin 1". Full (re-arranged) repertoire of

. *

852 __NOTOC__ Year 852 ( DCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * March 4 – Trpimir I, duke ('' knez'') of Croatia, and founder of the Trpim ...

– "MS-DOS Latin 2" *

855 __NOTOC__ Year 855 ( DCCCLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * November 20 – Theoktistos, co-regent of the Empire on behalf of ...

– "MS-DOS Cyrillic". Mainly used for

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. Includes (re-arranged) repertoire of

. Not to be confused with cp866. *

857 __NOTOC__ Year 857 ( DCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Emperor Michael III, under the influence of his uncle Bardas, banis ...

– "MS-DOS Turkish" * 858 – Western European with euro sign * 860 – "MS-DOS Portuguese" * 861 – "MS-DOS Icelandic" *

862 __NOTOC__ Year 862 ( DCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * The Varangians (called Rus'), under the leadership of Rurik, a Viking chiefta ...

– "MS-DOS Hebrew" * 863 – "MS-DOS French Canada" *

864 __NOTOC__ Year 864 ( DCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Emperor Louis II (the Younger) marches with a Frankish army ag ...

– Arabic *

865 __NOTOC__ Year 865 ( DCCCLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. C ...

– "MS-DOS Nordic" *

866 __NOTOC__ Year 866 ( DCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * April 21 – Bardas, the regent of the Byzantine Empire, is murd ...

– "MS-DOS Cyrillic Russian", cp866. Sole purely OEM code page (rather than ANSI or both) included as a legacy encoding in WHATWG Encoding Standard for

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. *

869 __NOTOC__ Year 869 ( DCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Summer – Emperor Basil I allies with the Frankish emperor L ...

– "MS-DOS Greek 2", IBM869. Full (re-arranged) repertoire of

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. * 874 – Thai, also used as the ANSI code page, extends

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(and therefore

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) with a few additional characters from Windows-1252. Corresponds to IBM code page 1162 (IBM-874 is similar but has different extensions).

East Asian multi-byte code pages

These often differ from the IBM code pages of the same number: code pages 932, 949 and 950 only partly match the IBM code pages of the same number, while the number 936 was used by IBM for another Simplified Chinese encoding which is now deprecated and Windows-951, as part of a

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, is unrelated to IBM-951. IBM equivalent code pages are given in the second column. Code pages 932, 936, 949 and 950/951 are used as both ANSI and OEM code pages on the locales in question. A few further multiple-byte code pages are supported for decoding or encoding using operating system libraries, but not used as either sort of system encoding in any locale.

EBCDIC code pages

* 37 – IBM EBCDIC US-Canada, 8-bit SBCS * 500 – Latin 1 * 870 – IBM870 * 875 – cp875 * 1026 – EBCDIC Turkish * 1047 – IBM01047 – Latin 1 * 1140 – IBM01141 * 1141 – IBM01141 * 1142 – IBM01142 * 1143 – IBM01143 * 1144 – IBM01144 * 1145 – IBM01145 * 1146 – IBM01146 * 1147 – IBM01147 * 1148 – IBM01148 * 1149 – IBM01149 * 20273 – EBCDIC Germany * 20277 – EBCDIC Denmark/Norway * 20278 – EBCDIC Finland/Sweden * 20280 – EBCDIC Italy * 20284 – EBCDIC Latin America/Spain * 20285 – EBCDIC United Kingdom * 20290 – EBCDIC Japanese * 20297 – EBCDIC France * 20420 – EBCDIC Arabic * 20423 – EBCDIC Greek * 20424 – x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended * 20833 – Korean * 20838 – EBCDIC Thai * 20924 – IBM00924 – IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System (1047 + Euro symbol) * 20871 – EBCDIC Icelandic * 20880 – EBCDIC Cyrillic * 20905 – EBCDIC Turkish * 21025 – EBCDIC Cyrillic * 21027 – Japanese EBCDIC (incomplete, deprecated)

Unicode-related code pages

* 1200 –

(BMP of ISO 10646,

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). Available only to managed applications. * 1201 –

(

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). Available only to managed applications. * 12000 –

UTF-32 UTF-32 (32- bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly 32 bits (four bytes) per code point (but a number of leading bits must be zero as there are far fewer than 232 Unicode ...

. Available only to managed applications. * 12001 –

. Big-endian. Available only to managed applications. * 65000 –

(

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) * 65001 –

(

)

Macintosh compatibility code pages

* 10000 – Apple Macintosh Roman * 10001 – Apple Macintosh Japanese * 10002 – Apple Macintosh Chinese (traditional) (BIG-5) * 10003 – Apple Macintosh Korean * 10004 – Apple Macintosh Arabic * 10005 – Apple Macintosh Hebrew * 10006 – Apple Macintosh Greek * 10007 – Apple Macintosh Cyrillic * 10008 – Apple Macintosh Chinese (simplified) (GB 2312) * 10010 – Apple Macintosh Romanian * 10017 – Apple Macintosh Ukrainian * 10021 – Apple Macintosh Thai * 10029 – Apple Macintosh Roman II / Central Europe * 10079 – Apple Macintosh Icelandic * 10081 – Apple Macintosh Turkish * 10082 – Apple Macintosh Croatian

ISO 8859 code pages

* 28591 –

– Latin-1 (IBM equivalent: 819) * 28592 –

– Latin-2 * 28593 – ISO-8859-3 – Latin-3 or South European * 28594 – ISO-8859-4 – Latin-4 or North European * 28595 –

– Latin/Cyrillic * 28596 –

ISO-8859-6 ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. ...

– Latin/Arabic * 28597 –

ISO-8859-7 ISO/IEC 8859-7:2003, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. I ...

– Latin/Greek * 28598 –

ISO-8859-8 ISO/IEC 8859-8, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings. ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999 from 1999 represe ...

– Latin/Hebrew * 28599 –

ISO-8859-9 ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1989. ...

– Latin-5 or Turkish * 28600 –

ISO-8859-10 ISO/IEC 8859-10:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1992 ...

– Latin-6 * 28601 –

ISO-8859-11 ISO/IEC 8859-11:2001, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 11: Latin/Thai alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001. I ...

– Latin/Thai * 28602 –

ISO-8859-12 ISO/IEC 8859-12 would have been part 12 of the ISO/IEC 8859 character encoding standard series. ISO 8859-12 was originally proposed to support the Celtic languages. ISO 8859-12 was later slated for Latin/Devanagari, but this was abandoned in 1997 ...

– ''reserved for Latin/Devanagari but abandoned'' (not supported) * 28603 – ISO-8859-13 – Latin-7 or Baltic Rim * 28604 – ISO-8859-14 – Latin-8 or Celtic * 28605 –

ISO-8859-15 ISO/IEC 8859-15:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1999. ...

– Latin-9 * 28606 –

ISO-8859-16 ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001 ...

– Latin-10 or South-Eastern European * 38596 – ISO-8859-6- – Latin/Arabic (logical bidirectional order) * 38598 – ISO-8859-8- – Latin/Hebrew (logical bidirectional order)

ITU-T code pages

* 20105 – 7-bit IA5 IRV (Western European) * 20106 – 7-bit IA5 German (DIN 66003) * 20107 – 7-bit IA5 Swedish (SEN 850200 C) * 20108 – 7-bit IA5 Norwegian (NS 4551-2) * 20127 – 7-bit

US-ASCII ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because of ...

* 20261 – T.61 (T.61-8bit) * 20269 – ISO-6937

KOI8 code pages

* 20866 – Russian – KOI8-R * 21866 – Ukrainian – KOI8-U (or

KOI8-RU KOI8-RU is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian which use a Cyrillic alphabet. It is closely related to KOI8-R, which covers Russian and Bulgarian, but replaces ten box drawing characters with five Ukra ...

in some versions)

Problems arising from the use of code pages

Microsoft strongly recommends using Unicode in modern applications, but many applications or data files still depend on the legacy code pages. * Programs need to know what code page to use in order to display the contents of (pre-Unicode) files correctly. If a program uses the wrong code page it may show text as

. * The code page in use may differ between machines, so (pre-Unicode) files created on one machine may be unreadable on another. * Data is often improperly tagged with the code page, or not tagged at all, making determination of the correct code page to read the data difficult. * These Microsoft code pages differ to various degrees from some of the standards and other vendors' implementations. This isn't a Microsoft issue ''per se'', as it happens to all vendors, but the lack of consistency makes interoperability with other systems unreliable in some cases. * The use of code pages limits the set of characters that may be used. * Characters expressed in an unsupported code page may be converted to question marks (?) or other

replacement character Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five have been assigned since Unicode 3.0: *, marks start of annotated text *, marks start ...

s, or to a simpler version (such as removing accents from a letter). In either case, the original character may be lost.

References

External links

National Language Support (NLS) API Reference
Table showing ANSI and OEM codepages per language (from web-archive since Microsoft removed the original page)
IANA Charset Name Registrations

Unicode mapping table for Windows code pages

Unicode mappings of windows code pages with "best fit"
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