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.  
  
* MS-DOS Latin US (Microsoft Code Page 437) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195060.aspx code table]
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* [[CP437|MS-DOS Latin US (Microsoft Code Page 437)]] [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195060.aspx code table]
 
* MS-DOS Greek (Microsoft Code Page 737) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195062.aspx code table]
 
* MS-DOS Greek (Microsoft Code Page 737) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195062.aspx code table]
 
* MS-DOS Baltic Rim (Microsoft Code Page 775) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195063.aspx code table]
 
* MS-DOS Baltic Rim (Microsoft Code Page 775) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195063.aspx code table]

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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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