MS-DOS encodings

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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 (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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Name MS-DOS encodings
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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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