Code page 773 (also known as CP 773) is a
code page used under
DOS
DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems.
DOS may also refer to:
Computing
* Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel
* Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicat ...
to write the
Estonian,
Lithuanian and
Latvian languages.
It is closely related to both
code page 775 (used for the same languages) and the
KBL encoding for Lithuanian. It retains the full set of
box-drawing characters
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. Box-drawing characters typically only work well with monospaced fonts. In ...
from
code page 437 (except for the half blocks), whereas code page 775 only retains the
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 ...
set. It does this by encoding the Lithuanian letters at their KBL locations rather than their code page 775 locations,
which replaces half blocks and punctuation. Therefore it includes all ''letters'' (but not all characters) of
ISO 8859-13
ISO/IEC 8859-13:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998. ...
.
Character set
The following table shows code page 773. Each character is shown with its equivalent
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...
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.
References
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