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* 437 -- Original

Although IBM maintained a myriad of code pages, the term has in general use taken on the meaning character coding for the [[IBM PC]]. Since the original IBM PC code page was not really designed for international use, several incompatible variants emerged:

* 437 -- Original PC extended character set

* 850 -- Multilangual

* 858 -- Multilangual with [[euro]]

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* 1088 -- Revised [[Korean]]

* 1114 -- [[Taiwan]]

* 10000 -- [[Macintosh]] Roman (followed by several other Mac character sets)

* 12000 -- [[Unicode]] [[little-endian]], 12001 [[big-endian]]

* 20000 -- CNS Taiwan, followed by other national character sets

The IBM PC code pages have now been obsolted by international standards, specifically [[ISO 8859-1]] and [[Unicode]].

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