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

'''Windows code pages''' are sets of characters or [[code pages]] (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 Windows code pages were gradually superseded when [[Unicode in Microsoft Windows|Unicode was implemented in Windows]],{{cn|date=October 2020}} although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when [[Alt code]] shortcuts are used.