MS-DOS encodings

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MS-DOS used a family of 8-bit extensions of ASCII. All code positions 0X20-0XFF are used to represent printable characters. MS-DOS Latin US is still the default encoding built into many PC ROMs.  
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MS-DOS (and PC-DOS, and the IBM PC ROMs) used a family of 8-bit extensions of ASCII. All code positions 0X20-0XFF are used to represent printable characters. MS-DOS Latin US is still the default encoding built into many PC ROMs.  
  
 
* MS-DOS Latin US (Microsoft Code Page 437) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195060.aspx code table]
 
* MS-DOS Latin US (Microsoft Code Page 437) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195060.aspx code table]

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MS-DOS (and PC-DOS, and the IBM PC ROMs) used a family of 8-bit extensions of ASCII. All code positions 0X20-0XFF are used to represent printable characters. MS-DOS Latin US is still the default encoding built into many PC ROMs.

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  • MS-DOS Latin-1 (Microsoft Code Page 850) code table
  • MS-DOS Greek 1 (Microsoft Code Page 851) code table
  • MS-DOS Latin-2 (Microsoft Code Page 852) code table
  • MS-DOS Cyrillic (Microsoft Code Page 855 code table
  • MS-DOS Turkish (Microsoft Code Page 857 code table
  • MS-DOS Portuguese (Microsoft Code Page 860) code table
  • MS-DOS Icelandic (Microsoft Code Page 861) code table
  • MS-DOS Hebrew (Microsoft Code Page 862) code table
  • MS-DOS French Canada (Microsoft Code Page 863) code table
  • MS-DOS Arabic Microsoft Code Page 864) code table
  • MS-DOS Nordic (Microsoft Code Page 865) code table
  • MS-DOS Cyrillic CIS 1 (Microsoft Code Page 866) code table
  • MS-DOS Greek 2 (Microsoft Code Page 869) code table
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