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'''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 Windows code pages were gradually superseded when [[Unicode in Microsoft Windows|Unicode was implemented in Windows]],{{cn|date=October 2020}} although they are still supported both within Windows and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.

Current Windows versions support [[Unicode]], new Windows applications should use Unicode (UTF-8) and not 8-bit character encodings.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/unicode-and-character-sets |title=Unicode and character sets |publisher=Microsoft |date=2023-06-13 |access-date=2024-05-27}}</ref>

There are two groups of system code pages in Windows systems: OEM and Windows-native ("ANSI") code pages.