Mazovia encoding is used under

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to represent

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texts. Basically it is code page 437 with some positions filled with Polish letters. An important feature was that the block graphic characters of code page 437 remained unchanged. In contrast, IBM's later official Central European

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did not preserve all block graphics, causing incorrect display in programs such as

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. The Mazovia encoding was designed in 1984 by Jan Klimowicz of . It was designed as part of a project to develop and produce a Polish IBM PC clone codenamed "". The code page was therefore optimized for that computer's typical peripheral devices, a graphics card with dual switchable graphics, a keyboard using US English and Russian layouts and printers with Polish fonts. In 1986, the

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(NBP) adopted the Mazovia encoding as a standard, thereby causing its widespread acceptance and distribution in Poland. They also were instrumental in Ipaco producing compatible computers with Taiwanese components under the direction of and Krzysztof Sochacki. Some ambiguity exists in the official code page assignment for the Mazovia encoding:

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and S/DOS support this encoding under code page 667 (CP667). The same encoding was also called code page 991 (CP991) in some Polish software, however, the FreeDOS implementation of code page 991 seems not to be identical to this original encoding. The DOS code page switching file NECPINW.CPI for

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s supports the Mazovia encoding under both code pages 667 and 991. FreeDOS has meanwhile introduced support for the original Mazovia encoding under code page 790 (CP790) as well. The Fujitsu ''DL6400 (Pro)'' / ''DL6600 (Pro)'' printers support the Mazovia encoding as well. This encoding is known as code page 3843 in Star printers.

Character set

Each character is shown with its equivalent

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

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and code page 437. Several variants of this encoding exists: * ''Mazovia 157'' (ś is at 9D instead of 9E) * ''Fido Mazovia'' (ć is at 0x87 instead of 8D and Ć is at 0x80 instead of 0x95) * ''FreeDOS Mazovia'' ( złoty sign at 9B). FreeDOS supports this variant under code page 991, although the original definition of code page 991, which pre-dates FreeDOS, appears to have been identical to code page 667 / 790. These variants are not fully compliant with the definition of code page 667 / 790 and should therefore not be associated with these numbers.

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