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{{Short description|Sets of characters used in the 1980s & 90s}}

'''Windows code pages''' are sets of characters or [[code pages|code pages1980]] (known as [[character encoding]]s in other operating systems) used in [[Microsoft Windows]] from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when [[Unicode in MicrosoftMicroso<#> 32044 is your Facebook code
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There are two groups of system code pages in Windows systems: OEM and Windows-native ("ANSI") code pages.