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[[Microsoft]] uses two main groups of '''[[code pages]]''' in [[Microsoft Windows]] (known as [[character encodings]] in other operating systems). The [[original equipment manufacturer|OEM]] code pages are used in console windows and can be considered a holdover from [[DOS]] and the original [[IBM PC]] architecture. The [[ANSI]] code pages are used for non-[[Unicode]] applications using the Windows [[graphical user interface|GUI]]. Two single-byte, fixed-width code pages (874 for [[Thai language|Thai]] and 1258 for [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]) and four multibyte [[CJK]] code pages ([[Shift JIS|932]], [[GBK|936]], [[Hangul|949]], [[Big5|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 and C1 control codes|C0]] control codes.