CP437

Code Page 437 (CP437; also known as Microsoft Code Page 437, DOS Code Page 437, IBM Code Page 437, OEM 437, MS-DOS Latin US) is an 8-bit character encoding. It is a member of the family of MS-DOS encodings. It was widely used for English-language text on the MS-DOS platform, and is used by many formats and text files from that era.

The encoding has printable characters at nearly all of the available 256 code points, but in many contexts some of the codes (in the range 0–31, and 127) are used for control characters instead.

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * IBM CP437 reference
 * CP437 table from MSDN