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== History ==
Early computer systems had limited storage and restricted the number of [[bit]]s available to encode a [[character (computing)|character]]. Although earlier proprietary encodings had fewer, the [[ASCII|American Standard Code for Information Interchange]] (ASCII) settled on seven bits: this was sufficient to encode a
Since the late 1990s, software and systems have adopted [[Unicode]] as their preferred character encoding format: Unicode is designed to handle millions of characters. All current Microsoft products and [[application program interfaces]] use Unicode internally,{{cn|date=October 2020}} but some applications continue to use the default encoding{{clarify|date=October 2024}} of the computer's 'locale' when reading and writing text data to files or standard output.{{cn|date=October 2020}} Therefore, files may still be encountered that are legible and intelligible in one part of the world but unintelligible [[mojibake]] in another.
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* {{anchor|CP437}}[[Code page 437|437]] – IBM PC US, 8-bit [[SBCS]] [[extended ASCII]].<ref name="IBM_CP437">{{cite web|author=IBM|title=SBCS code page information document - CPGID 00437|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp00437.html|access-date=2014-07-04|archive-date=2016-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609084933/https://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp00437.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Known as OEM-US, the encoding of the primary built-in font of VGA graphics cards.<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate --><!-- [[Windows 1.0|1.00]]-[[Windows ME|4.90]] -->
* [[Code page 708|708]] – Arabic, extended [[ISO 8859-6]] (ASMO 708)<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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* [[Code page 737|737]] – "MS-DOS Greek". Retains all box drawing characters. More popular than 869.<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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* [[Code page 850|850]] – "MS-DOS Latin 1". Full (re-arranged) repertoire of [[ISO 8859-1]].<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
* [[Code page 852|852]] – "MS-DOS Latin 2"<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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* [[Code page 858|858]] – Western European with euro sign<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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* [[Code page 861|861]] – "MS-DOS Icelandic"<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
* [[Code page 862|862]] – "MS-DOS Hebrew"<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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|first=Alexandre
|last=Julliard
|date=11 March 2021
|publisher=[[Wine (software)|Wine Project]]
|access-date=2021-03-14
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|[[Code page 20423|20423]]||423||EBCDIC Greek with Extended Latin<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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|[[Code page 20424|20424]]||
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|[[Code page 20833|20833]]||833||Korean EBCDIC for N-Byte Hangul; {{code|x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended}}<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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|[[Code page 20838|20838]]||838||EBCDIC Thai<!-- Windows 7 Ultimate -->
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* 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]]s, or to a simpler version (such as removing accents from a letter). In either case, the original character may be lost.
==References==
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