Code page 850

Code page 850 is a code page used under DOS operating systems in Western Europe. Depending on the country setting and system configuration, code page 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page in many countries, including various English-speaking locales, whilst other English-speaking locales default to the hardware code page 437.

Character set

Each non-ASCII character appears with its equivalent Unicode code-point. Differences from code page 437 are limited to the second half of the table, the first half being the same. }} ==Code page 858==

Code page 858

In 1998, code page 858 (CCSID 858) (also known as CP 858, IBM 00858, OEM 858) was derived from this code page by changing code point 213 (D5hex) from a dotless i to the euro sign . Unlike most code pages modified to support the euro sign, the generic currency sign at CFhex was not chosen as the character to replace (compare ISO-8859-15 (from ISO-8859-1), code pages 808 (from 866), 848 (from 1125), 849 (from 1131) and 872 (from 855), ISO-IR-205 (from ISO-8859-4), ISO-IR-206 (from ISO-8859-13), and the changes to MacRoman and MacCyrillic). IBM's PC DOS 2000, also released in 1998, just changed the definition of 850 to match 858 and called it modified code page 850. This was done so programs that hard-coded 850 would be able to use the Euro sign. There may also have been a problem with Code Page Information () files being limited to about six codepages maximum. More recent IBM/MS products implement codepage 858 under its own ID and have restored 850 to the original. ==See also==

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