Windows code page: Difference between revisions

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[[Microsoft]] uses two main groups of '''code pages in Windows'''. The [[original equipment manufacturer|OEM]] [[code page]]s are used in console windows and can be considered a hangover from [[DOS]] and the original [[IBM PC]] architecture. The [[ANSI]] code pages are used for non-[[Unicode]] apps in the [[Microsoft Windows]] [[graphical user interface|GUI]]. Two single-byte, fixed-width code pages (874 for {{ll[[Thai language|Thai}}]] and 1258 for {{ll[[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese}}]]) and four multibyte [[CJK]] code pages (932, 936, 949, 950) are used as both ANSI and OEM code pages. Both ANSI and OEM code pages are [[extended ASCII]] code pages.

Code page 1258 uses [[combining diacritic]]s as Vietnamese requires more than 128 letter-diacritic combinations. This is in contrast to [[VISCII]], which replaces some of the [[C0]] control codes.