- From: Drazen Kacar <dave@fly.cc.fer.hr>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 04:18:18 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: boo@best.com (Walter Ian Kaye)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
> The following table lists the code pages supported by FoxPro.
> Code Page Platform Code Page
> Identifier
> Code Platform
> 437 U.S. MS-DOS x01
> 850 International MS-DOS x02
> 852 Eastern European MS-DOS x64
> 857 Turkish MS-DOS x6B
> 861 Icelandic MS-DOS x67
> 865 Nordic MS-DOS x66
> 866 Russian MS-DOS x65
[3 code pages omitted]
Microsoft didn't make those up. IBM did. All of them are registered with IANA.
Names are IBMxxx, with several aliases. They are all defined in RFC 1345.
As an example here's the entry for 852:
Name: IBM852 [RFC1345,KXS2]
MIBenum: 2010
Source: IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01, March 1990
Alias: cp852
Alias: 852
Alias: csPCp852
>
> 1250 Eastern European Windows xC8
> 1251 Russian Windows xC9
> 1252 Windows ANSI x03
> 1253 Greek Windows xCB
> 1254 Turkish Windows xCA
>
These are Microsoft's inventions, I believe. Nothing with those numbers exists
in IANA registry, but there are two entries with this description:
Name: ISO-8859-2-Windows-Latin-2 [HP-PCL5]
MIBenum: 2002
Source: Extended ISO 8859-2. Latin-2 for Windows 3.1.
PCL Symbol Set id: 9E
Alias: csWindows31Latin2
Name: ISO-8859-5-Windows-Latin-5 [HP-PCL5]
MIBenum: 2003
Source: Extended ISO 8859-5. Latin-5 for Windows 3.1
PCL Symbol Set id: 5T
Alias: csWindows31Latin5
I think that 1250 is ISO-8859-2-Windows-Latin-2 and 1251 is
ISO-8859-5-Windows-Latin-5. 1250 is not only extended ISO 8859-2, though.
It's a nightmare.
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Received on Tuesday, 9 July 1996 22:21:16 UTC