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A '''code page identifier''' is a 16-bit integer that identifies a character encoding. The numbering system was originally developed by IBM. The identifiers were intended to be globally unique, but due to lack of vendor cooperation, there are cases where the same encoding has been assigned different numbers by different vendors. (It's unclear whether there are also cases where the same number has been used for more than one encoding.)

Examples of such identifiers are '''37''' for IBM EBCDIC USA/Canada, '''437''' for [[CP437]], '''1252''' for [[Windows 1252]], and '''28591''' for (Microsoft) [[ISO 8859-1]].

See [[Character encoding]] for information about specific encodings.

== Links ==
* [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317756%28v=vs.85%29.aspx MSDN: Code Page Identifiers]
* [http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp_cpgid.html IBM: Code page identifiers]
* [[Wikipedia: Code page]]

[[Category:Naming and numbering systems]]
[[Category:IBM]]

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